On a recent press trip to Oxford, Gustav Ceder visited John Todd, PhD, at the Centre for Human Genetics to discuss his latest research and reflect on the path that brought him there. Ceder having followed Todd’s work for years, has always been fascinated by the way Todd pairs early adoption of new technologies with a clear translational purpose, and maintains a sustained focus on the type 1 diabetes community and more recently, on the field of neuroinflammation.

Q: We’re speaking today at the Wellcome Centre–what has this place meant to you personally and briefly, what influence has this center had on the scientific community?

John Todd: The Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics started in 1994, when a colleague of mine, Sir John Bell and I with others wrote a grant to the Wellcome Trust t

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