Professor Jonathan Weber

Jonathan Weber is a Professor of Medicine at Imperial College London and at the Institute of Health at the University of Cumbria, where he is co-Director of the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine Research Hub (PCSM-RH). He is a Non-Executive Director at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Trust (NCIC), where he chairs the Quality, Improvement and Safety Committee.

He trained at the University of Cambridge and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School. In 1982 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust clinical training fellowship to study the emergent AIDS epidemic and has researched HIV/AIDS and the other human retrovirus, HTLV, ever since. He was subsequently Lecturer at the Institute of Cancer Research and then Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital. In 1990, he was appointed to the Jefferiss Chair of Communicable Diseases and Genito-Urinary Medicine at Imperial College London and was an honorary consultant physician at St Mary’s Hospital. His research encompassed the development of antiretroviral therapy and currently the prevention of HIV infection through prophylactic vaccine development and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial 2017-23, and Director of the Imperial Academic Health Science Centre from 2015-2024. He was awarded the CBE in 2024 for contributions to global health research and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.