Most of Bob’s career was spent in the Immunochemistry Unit although he also worked at Leicester University, in the Pharmacology Department in Oxford and at Kingston University. Bob has published more than 350 scientific papers and edited several books. In 2013 he was awarded a medal by the European Complement Network for his contribution to understanding of the blood immune stsytem called Complement. He also supervised more than 30 postgraduate students many of whom have gone on to become world experts in their own fields, including Tony Day, Alvaro Diaz, Carolina Savador-Morales, James Arnold and Vivek and Rajneesh Malhotra – the latter were brothers. Rajneesh Malhotra married a fellow student from Bob’s lab Zsuza Kertez. Bob was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the Republic of Uruguay, Montevideo in 2017.