Christopher Mee is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Birmingham.
He did is undergraduate studies at Nottingham Trent University which included 6 months working for Dr Edward Munn at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge on monoclonal antibody therapies for parasitic infections and was awarded his degree in 1998. His PhD studies took place at University of Nottingham under the supervision of Dr David Bell and Professor Peter Usherwood on the role of orphan G-protein coupled receptors in regulating responses to neurotoxins.
He then undertook a postdoctoral position at University of Warwick with Dr Richard Baines on the modulation of neuronal transmission in Drosophila and continued this work in the laboratory of Professor David Sattelle at the MRC Functional Genetics Unit in Oxford.
In 2006 he changed his research focus to take up a 5-year Wellcome Trust funded position with Professor Jane McKeating at University of Birmingham working on entry factors leading to hepatocyte tropism of the Hepatitis C virus. Over this period, he led work on the role of cell polarity, receptor trafficking and hypoxia on the expression of viral entry factors and their role in viral infection.
For the last 9-years, he has also been a lecturer/senior lecturer/associate professor in Biomedical Sciences (Coventry University) and MBChB (Leicester Medical School). He has a particular interest in transnational education (TNE) and has been part of teaching partnerships with universities in Spain, Hong Kong and China.