Anne Catherine Foster

Dr Anne Catherine Foster (1943 – 2025) was born in Manchester on 10 July 1934 to Lucy Stokoe and John Robert Maddocks.

She read Animal Physiology at St Hugh’s College Oxford, and in 1958 went to medical school in London. She later worked in St George’s Hospital, followed by St Mary’s Hospital, where she became a Senior Lecturer and Consultant Bacteriologist.

A prominent figure in the wider understanding of HIV in the early 1980s, she also contributed to the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) epidemic inquiry led by Lord Phillips in 1998.

She married Professor Charles Foster in 1986 and they lived in Chislehurst in Kent.