Clare Bryant is the Professor of Innate Immunity in the Departments of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine,The University of Cambridge. Her expertise involves a unique blend of both industrial and academic experience. She worked in the Department of Physiological Chemistry at Genentech, ran a research group at the GSK Immunology Catalyst. Academically,  she runs a large research group, studying innate immunity in the context of inflammatory diseases and bacterial infection, composed of medics, vets and scientists supported from research grants and pharmaceutical industry funding.

Clare graduated in biochemistry before training as a vet in London.  She was funded by the Wellcome Trust for her PhD (in London) before moving to the William Harvey Research Institute for 4 years as a Wellcome postdoctoral fellow. She then moved to Cambridge as a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow where she is now Professor and a Wellcome Trust Investigator.