Sir Michael Anthony John Ferguson (born February 1957) is a British biochemist and Regius Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee.
His research team are based at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.
[2] After education at St Peter's School, York, he received a BSc degree in biochemistry from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1979 and a PhD degree in biochemistry by London University in 1982.
He then accepted a lectureship at the University of Dundee and was promoted to Professor of Molecular Parasitology in 1994.
He became Dean of Research for the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee in 2007, a position he held until 2014.