John Bradley is a consultant physician at Cambridge University Hospitals, and honorary Professor of Experimental Medicine at University of Cambridge. He is Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, and Director of Research for Cambridge University Health Partners. He completed undergraduate medical training in Nottingham and trained in renal medicine in Cambridge, before undertaking research fellowships at Harvard, Yale and Cambridge Universities. He is Chief Investigator of the NIHR BioResource. As a NIHR Senior Investigator his research focuses on tumour necrosis factor (TNF) signalling in the microvasculature. He has written six undergraduate medical textbooks, and is Director of Studies in Medicine at Trinity Hall University of Cambridge. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to health research in the Queen’s birthday honours in 2015.