Gordon started work for the Wool Industries Research Association, Leeds in 1941, where he was a colleague of R. L. M. Synge. He spent periods in Denmark, Czechoslovakia and Sweden, 1948-1950 before starting at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London in June 1950.
Curtis was Director of the Food Research Institute, Norwich.
Matai applied for a Colombo Plan Fellowship to study with R. L. M. Synge at the Food Research Institute, Norwich. He was notified of the award in December 1967 but delays thereafter meant he was unable to take up the post until October 1968. He returned to India in August 1970.
Chalmers was a colleague of R. L. M. Synge at the Rowett Research Institute. In 1964 she was offered an appointment on twelve month assignment as Animal Production Officer (Animal Nutrition) on an FAO Mission of the United Nations to the Government of India. The appointment was based at the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union at Anand, Gujerat.
Consden was at the Wool Industries Research Association at Leeds with A.J.P. Martin.
Elsden was an undergraduate contemporary of R. L. M. Synge at Cambridge and his lifelong friend. After a year's research in Cambridge with Marjorie Stephenson, Elsden obtained an Assistant Lectureship in the Physiology Department, University of Edinburgh. He returned to Cambridge in 1943 and after a period in California in 1946 (Berkeley and Stanford) moved to Department of Bacteriology, University of Sheffield in 1948. Elsden subsequently became Honorary Director of the ARC Unit for Microbiology and Professor of Microbiology at Sheffield where he remained until 1965. He was Director of the ARC Food Research Insitute, Norwich, 1965-1977.