Domain Chair:

Prof. Michael Ehrenstein

Domain Coordinator:

vacant

The Domains encompass the breadth of research activity across the School of Life and Medical Sciences within nine core groupings. 

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Infection, Immunology & Inflammation Domain

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Infection, Immunology and Inflammation spans research from basic molecular mechanisms of immunity to therapeutic intervention for the benefit of children and adults suffering from chronic and acute diseases that cause  major morbidity and mortality.  Research is both clinically and experimentally based to unravel mechanisms of the immune system in health and to understand the pathogenesis of each disease process. There is a strong ethos of collaboration across the domain; our aim being to achieve the highest quality research, provide the highest quality education and to address the most pressing problems in this interdisciplinary field.

Scientific Meetings, Seminars and Announcements

Launch of the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology 

We are pleased to announce the Launch of the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology (Director, Professor Lucy Wedderburn, Co-directors Professor David Isenberg and Dr Debajit Sen) at University College London, University College London Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trusts supported by Arthritis Research UK and Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity.

This is a very exciting initiative, the first of its kind in the UK. The main aim of this innovative new Centre is to improve the health and well- being of adolescents with arthritis and other rheumatological conditions, through high quality research which informs and improves clinical care.

The Launch of the Centre will take place on Monday 26th November 2012, 2.30pm-6pm, in the Kennedy Lecture Theatre in the Institute of Child Health, UCL. For a full programme and to register for the event please visit http://arukcentreforadolescentrheumatologylaunch.eventbrite.co.uk/. For additional information please contact Laura Kassoumeri (Research Facilitator) on l.kassoumeri@ucl.ac.uk.

2012 UCL Infection Immunology Inflammation Domain and UCL Partners Symposium was held on Friday 19th October 2012 at the Institute of Child Health in the Kennedy Lecture Theatre

For further information about the symposium please contact Hayley Simpson

The full programme 

08.15              Registration and coffee

08.45              Welcome

Infection Session Chair: Professor Ari Fassati

08.50-09.15  Professor Stephen Goff, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University

09.15-09.40  Professor Mike Curtis, QMUL

09.40-10.05  Professor Greg Towers, UCL

10.05-10.30  Professor Brendan Wren, LSHTM

10.30-10.50  Refreshments

10.50-12.00  Simultaneous poster discussion groups: 

Cancer Immunology (Moderator: Dr Sergio Quezada ), Regulation of Inflammation (Moderator: Professor David Abraham), Viral Infection (Moderator: Professor Benny Chain)

12.00-13.00  Lunch, Poster Viewing and Exhibition

Immunology Session Chair: Professor Arne Akbar

13.00-13.25  Professor Mike McCune, University of California San Francisco

13.25-13.50  Professor Claudia  Mauri, UCL

13.50-14.15  Professor Bobby Gaspar, UCL

14.15-14.40  Professor Hans Stauss, UCL

14.40-15.00  Refreshments

Inflammation Session Chair: Professor Derek Gilroy

15.00-15.25  Professor Mark Pepys, UCL

15.25-15.50  Professor Brigitta Stockinger, MRC NIHR

15.50-16.15  Professor Rachel Chambers, UCL

16.15-16.40  Professor Mike Ehrenstein, UCL

16.40            Meeting close and reception