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fiona.powrie@kennedy.ox.ac.uk


+44 (0)1865 612659


powrie.pa@kennedy.ox.ac.uk

Fiona Powrie FRS

FMedSci

Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences and Director of the Kennedy Institute

  • Principal Investigator in the Translational Gastroenterology Unit, University of Oxford

Fiona Powrie is the Director of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and Principal Investigator in the Translational Gastroenterology Unit, University of Oxford.

Her research interests include characterisation of the interaction between the intestinal microbiota and the host immune system and how this mutualistic relationship breaks down in inflammatory bowel disease.

Fiona's work has identified the functional role of regulatory T cells in intestinal homeostasis and shed light on their development and mechanism of action. She has also shown that both adaptive and innate immune mechanisms contribute to intestinal inflammation and identified the IL-23 pathway as a pivotal player in the pathogenesis of chronic intestinal inflammation.

Her current work seeks to translate findings from model systems into the clinic in inflammatory bowel disease patients.

Fiona  received the Ita Askonas Award from the European Federation of Immunological Societies for her contribution to immunology in Europe and the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2012.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011, EMBO in 2013 and the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014. 

Fiona joined the Wellcome Trust's Board of Governors in 2018.

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