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Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
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Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
@KirOxford
An inflammatory sciences centre @UniofOxford @NDORMS. Bridging discovery and clinical research, focused on the biology of tissue health and chronic disease.
- Our Director of Research, Prof Michael Dustin, has been elected as a member of the US National Academy of Sciences for his contributions to molecular immunology. Congratulations to Mike on this tremendous achievement! @MichaelLDustin @OxfordMedSci ow.ly/Jzg550EyATu
- Happy International Women’s Day from all of us at the Kennedy Institute, where we strive to foster an inclusive and supportive culture, free of bias. #IWD #IWD2022 #BreakTheBias #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2022
- Kennedy researchers receive @The_MRC funding for projects spanning microbiome and arthritis, inflammasomes and B cells in autoimmune disease. Congratulations all! @JelenaLab @a_j_clarke ow.ly/FKLI50GjcrQ
- 🎉 Congratulations to our Director, Prof Fiona Powrie, who has been appointed Deputy Chair of the Wellcome's Board of Governors. @wellcometrust kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/fiona-pow…
- 🎉 Congratulations to Prof Katja Simon who has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences for her exceptional contribution to the advancement of medical science. @acmedsci @aksimonlab ow.ly/Zumo50EKZeu
- New review from Profs Chris Buckley, Mark Coles and colleagues examines fibroblasts as immune regulators in different tissues and disease states. @NatRevImmunol @arthritisbham ow.ly/GFSu50EAsAf
- Congratulations to Audrey Gérard and her team, who received £1.5 million in funding from @CR_UK for a new project to unravel the coevolution between cancer and the immune system! 🎉 Read about Audrey's project ⬇️ kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/cruk-fund… @AGerardLab
- And that’s a wrap on the @KIROxford Retreat! Thank you to all of our brilliant speakers for updating us on your vital and ground-breaking research. It was fantastic to be back together in-person again!
- Cornelia Heuberger successfully defended her D.Phil thesis entitled “Antigen presentation and T cell regulation by intestinal epithelial cells.”🎉 Congrats to Cornelia and her supervisor Fiona Powrie. Thank you to the examiners, Prof @MichaelLDustin & Prof G Frankel @powrie_lab
- Congratulations to @MichaelLDustin and @JelenaLab on their election as fellows of the Henry Kunkel Society this month! 👏 henrykunkelsociety.org
- Alina Janney successfully defended her D.Phil thesis entitled “Host-microbe interactions in inflammation-driven cancer”. 🎉 Congratulations to @AlinaJanney and her supervisor Fiona Powrie @powrie_lab. Thank you to the examiners, Prof I Udalova @UdalovaLab and Dr L Carlin
- A large-scale genetic study by a research team including Dr Luke Jostins suggests shared biological pathways contribute to irritable bowel syndrome and mental health disorders such as anxiety. @lukejostins @NatureGenet Read more 👉 ow.ly/rqBW50GHi2H
- Congratulations to @doro_berthold, @UdalovaLab, for successfully defending her Thesis entitled "Myeloid cells at the onset of colitis in the context of IRF5 deficiency" 🥂🎉 Thank you to examiners Prof Simmons and Prof Hidalgo
