He graduated from Leicester University with a degree in Biological Sciences in 1990. Since then he has worked as a technician in Leicester University's Botany department, as a research plant virologist at Imperial College London, and as a study director at BioProducts Laboratory in Hertfordshire.
He started his PhD in the Reta Lila Weston Institute in 2000. He has been studying how tau expression on neuroblastoma cells effects their susceptibility to oxygenative stress, and has recently started a collaboration with a group in the Netherlands Institute of Brain Research studying the affect of a mutant form of ubiquitin on tau. This ubiquitin mutant is the result of an RNA encoded frame-shift that results in an aberrant extended ubiquitin that upsets proteasome activity.
Drew is also a keen singer, and can occasionally be heard on the radio and on the concert platform, trying to sing as a baritone.
