Education and Career
Born in Ilford, Essex, Minson was educated at Ilford High School and went on to study microbiology from the University of Birmingham in 1965. His postgraduate work was at the Research School of Biological Sciences of Australian National University, researching fungal genetics with E. H. Creaser. He gained his PhD in 1968 for work on the biosynthesis of histidine in Neurospora crassa.
By the early 1970s, Minson had returned to the University of Birmingham. In 1976, he took up a position as Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. In the mid-1980s, he became head of the Division of Virology and, in 1991, was appointed professor of virology in the Department of Pathology. He is a fellow of Wolfson College.
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