Tony is a physiologist who gained a Ph.D in 1991 from St. George's Hospital Medical School. He has published in the fields of obesity (brown fat metabolism) as well as nausea and vomiting. He was a neuroscience lecturer for 4 years before going to the Wellcome Trust in 1998 where he became Head of Medical Humanities & Engagement Grants. In 2012, he left Wellcome to become CEO of Genesis Research Trust- an Imperial College-based charity chaired by Lord Robert Winston. He returned to Wellcome in 2017 to look after the Wellcome Collection Research Hub and worked closely with the Created out of Mind team (dementia project) led by Professor Seb Crutch (UCL). In 2019, he helped establish the SHAPER research team and he is now the Programme Manager for this programme.