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Lunch Hour Lecture | From gene deserts to druggable pathways in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
26 November 2024, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
James Lee will discuss genetic discovery in inflammatory bowel disease in this lunch hour lecture.
This event is free.
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About the lecture:
Genetic discovery in inflammatory bowel disease has been incredibly successful. This provides a unique opportunity to understand what goes wrong when people develop disease, which in turn could identify better treatment targets. Yet most of this potential remains unrealised, as moving from where genetic associations lie to an understanding of how they drive disease is a formidable challenge. James Lee will discuss recent efforts to address this challenge and how his research has revealed a central orchestrator of inflammation, which could be targeted therapeutically.
About the Speaker
James Lee
Clinician Scientist Group Leader at Francis Crick Institute
Clinician Scientist Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute and an Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Free Hospital. He studied medicine at Oxford and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. In 2014 he was awarded a Wellcome Intermediate Clinical Fellowship and spent half of this award at Harvard University before returning to Cambridge in 2018 to establish his research group. He joined the Crick in 2021. His work has been recognised by numerous prizes including the Julia Bodmer Award (European Federation of Immunogenetics), the Sir Francis Avery-Jones Medal (British Society of Gastroenterology), the United European Gastroenterology Society Rising Star Award, and a Lister Prize.