Neil Foster is an professor at the Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, Scotland’s Rural College, Aberdeen, UK. He trained in immunology at the University of Leeds and has studied the immune response to bacterial pathogens and parasites for over 25 years, previously working at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford and The Institute for Animal Health. He has collaborated on several EU projects, has published numerous scientific studies on immunity in animals and humans, and currently researches molecular biomarker development in pigs and poultry at his lab.