He obtained his PhD from the London Research Institute, where he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen West, and subsequently conducted his postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Elledge. He was the recipient of an EMBO long-term fellowship and has recently received awards from the Breast Cancer Alliance and the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. His laboratory is interested in defining the molecular mechanisms that preserve replication fork integrity in response to DNA damage.