BSc, PhD, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorney.

John read biochemistry at Bristol University. He conducted research in microbial molecular biology at Sheffield University for his doctorate, and did post-doctoral research work on mammalian cytochrome P450 genes for Cancer Research UK at Edinburgh University. During his research career, John authored over forty research and review papers for international journals in the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics.