Biography: Tim Mitchell qualified with a BSc in Biological Sciences (Microbiology) from the University of Birmingham in 1983. He was awarded a PhD from the same University in 1986 for his studies on the role of Toxin A in the pathophysiology of disease caused by Clostridium difficile. He obtained a Wellcome Trust Fellowship and spent a year at Erasmus University in Rotterdam studying the effects of bacterial toxins of host cell signalling pathways. He then returned to the UK as a post-doctoral researcher and then Wellcome Trust Fellow at University of Leicester where he learned molecular biology under the tutelage of Graham Boulnois.
In 1992 he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and in 1996 moved to the University of Glasgow where he was appointed to the Chair of Microbiology. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2004. In 2012 he returned to the University of Birmingham as Professor of Microbial Infection and Immunity.