Stuart Neil is currently Professor of Virology and Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at King’s College London. He received his PhD in 2001 from UCL and worked with Robin Weiss and Aine McKnight on HIV-1/host interactions. In 2005 he moved to the laboratory of Paul Bieniasz Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and The Rockefeller University in New York. Here he discovered the role of Tetherin/BST2 as a mammalian antiviral restriction factor counteracted by the HIV-1 Vpu protein and several other accessory proteins of diverse RNA and DNA viruses. He established his own research group as a Wellcome Career Development Fellow at King’s College London in 2008. His work has continued to focus on virus/host interactions, especially membrane-associated and RNA-directed antiviral factors that inhibit mammalian viruses, expanding his research interests from HIV/AIDS into Ebola virus, Influenza virus, and SARS CoV-2.