Kennedy
22 October 2018
Kennedy research Professor Irina Udalova has joined the Wellcome Trust’s Immune System in Health and Disease Expert Review Group from 1 October 2018.
As a committee member, Irina will contribute to the shortlisting of candidates for a range of Wellcome Trust Schemes including including Investigator Awards, Senior Research Fellowships and Sir Henry Dale Fellowships.
Speaking of the appointment, Irina said “I am delighted to join the Wellcome Trust Expert Review Panel. I hope I can pass my own positive experience with the Wellcome Trust review process (both in terms of fairness and useful feedback provided) on to other applicants”.
Professor of Molecular Immunology
22 February 2023
A new study in The EMBO Journal has revealed how fat tissues might provide a protective role in intestinal inflammation opening new lines of research into the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases.
16 February 2023
Kennedy Institute researchers Mariana Borsa and Edward Jenkins have both been awarded Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships, which give recently qualified postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to start independent research careers.
6 February 2023
In his inaugural article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as an NAS member (elected 2021), Prof Mike Dustin and his research team have explained how messages are passed across the immunological synapse. The research could have implications for future vaccine development and immunotherapy treatments.
22 December 2022
A new study, published in Science Translational Medicine by researchers at the University of Oxford has identified that Talarozole, a drug that is known to increase retinoic acid, was able to prevent osteoarthritis (OA) in disease models.
6 December 2022
A generous gift from the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research has enabled the creation of a new Chair in Molecular Immunology at the University of Oxford.
2 December 2022
The kinase occupancy of CD4 and CD8 coreceptors is high, according to a new study published in PNAS.
