Michael Bramhall completed his PhD ‘Development of Biomarkers to Predict Disease Outcome in Gut Inflammation’ in 2016, with Sheena Cruickshank and Andy Brass at the University of Manchester. He then joined the lab of Colby Zaph at Monash University where his research examined the role of the transcriptional repressor HIC1 in immune cells under homeostatic and inflammatory conditions. In 2019 he was awarded a Careers in Immunology Fellowship from the AAI.