Dr Conway Morris trained in Glasgow and Edinburgh. He undertook his PhD in critical care immunology and nosocomial infection in Edinburgh before moving to Cambridge to complete his training in Anaesthesia and ICM. He has developed a number of diagnostics for infection, including the host response test recently evaluated in the VAP-RAPID trial, and several pathogen-focussed molecular diagnostic platforms. He is currently an MRC Clinician Scientist at the University of Cambridge and Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine in the John V Farman Intensive Care Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital. He is the Chair of the ESICM’s Infection section.