Prof Anthony R. Fooks

Prof Anthony R. Fooks (PhD, Fibiol) is currently leading the Rabies and Wildlife Zoonoses Group at the Veterinary Laboratories Agency, UK. He acts as a scientific advisor to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on issues relating to zoonotic viral diseases. Since 2002, he was appointed director of a World Health Organisation Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Collaborating Centre for the characterisation of rabies and rabies-related viruses. In 2006, he was appointed a Designated OIE Reference Expert for Rabies. He is also an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathology at the University of Liverpool, UK, with links to the National Centre for Zoonoses Research. His current active research and surveillance projects include rabies virus, West Nile Fever Virus, Tick-borne encephalitis virus, Japanese encephalitis virus and Ljungan virus as his principal interests remain focused on RNA viruses, viral diseases of the CNS and emerging / exotic viral zoonoses.