Professor Chris Bunce is a double alumnus of Birmingham and has pursued his research career here too. His PhD studies were undertaken in the Dept of Immunology. In 1997 he was awarded one of two inaugural Leukaemia Research Fund Bennett Senior Fellowships which he took in the Department of Medicine. In 2002 he moved to the School of Biosciences as a Leukaemia Research Fund Senior lecturer. In 2008 he became Reader in Experimental Haematological Oncology. Professor Bunce’s group received Programme support from the Leukaemia Research Fund in 2005 which was successfully renewed in 2010. This programme is shared with Professor Bunce’s long-term clinical collaborator Professor Mark Drayson.