Martin Allday obituary

My friend and colleague Martin Allday, who has died aged 66 of cancer, was a professor at Imperial College London with an international reputation as a molecular virologist.

His field was the biology of the Epstein-Barr virus and his research revealed completely new insights into its link with cancer. The question that fascinated him and that he researched for 30 years was how this extremely common, generally harmless virus caused the disease.