Professor Jim Huggett read genetics in Liverpool University followed by a PhD in Cardiff University where he studied gene expression in bone disease. Particularly interested in the application of advanced molecular methods to clinical scenarios he moved to UCL in 2002 to work with Professor Alimuddin Zumla. Here he worked on infectious diseases in developing world settings before moving to the National Measurement Laboratory (NML) at LGC in 2009. At the NML, the UK’s designated NMI for chemical and bio-analytical measurement, he focuses on high accuracy measurement and the strengthening of traceability that underpin legislation, regulation and standardization.