John Grange

Professor John Grange (born 4 April 1943 at East Dereham, Norfolk) is an English immunologist, epidemiologist, researcher, and academic, and is one of Europe's leading tuberculosis specialists.
Education
Grange was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, and then from 1962 to 1967 at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School of the University of London.
Career
After qualification as a physician, Grange joined the Research Department at the Middlesex Hospital, where he studied the genus Mycobacterium and the diseases it causes in humans and other animals. This followed a stay in Zaire to study the Buruli ulcer. His doctoral thesis was on the classification of certain rapidly growing mycobacteria and led to research on the development of bacteriophage typing of mycobacteria for epidemiology.
Next he was appointed Reader in Microbiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, where his interests turned to the immunology and...