Ted Bianco

Ted Bianco is Director of Technology Transfer at the Wellcome Trust with responsibility for the promotion of early stage R&D through translational research funding and the management of intellectual property arising from Wellcome Trust-sponsored research.
He has 25 years experience in biomedical research, specializing in tropical medicine and infectious disease.
He obtained his PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and subsequently worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, where he was the Walter Myers Professor of Parasitology.
He joined the Wellcome Trust in 1999 as head of the Centres and Major Initiatives department.
Ted Bianco is an honorary professor of the Liverpool School.