UCL Infection, Immunology and Inflammation Symposium 2016

On Tuesday 8 November, over 300 leading researchers from across UCL, Queen Mary University of London and beyond were brought together for the annual UCL Infection, Immunology and Inflammation (III) Symposium.

The event was held in partnership with Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UCLPartners and the National Institute for Health Research BRC Infection, Immunity and Inflammation (III) Programme.

The early career researcher (ECR) poster exhibition and presentations proved especially popular, culminating in five awards presented by Professor David Lomas, UCL Vice-Provost (Health).

PhD Student Simon Guillaumé (London Interdisciplinary Doctoral training programme) wrote a blog about the event and further details about the III theme is available on the UCL Personalised Medicine Domain website.

ECR presentation winner

Dr Neil McCarthy (Blizard Institute, QMUL), ‘Human antigen-presenting yd T-cells promote IL-22 production in naïve and intestinal memory CD4+ T-cells in a TNF-alpha and ICOSL-dependent manner’

ECR poster winner

Lina Petersone (UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation), ‘Contribution of IL-21 signalling to the phenotype of CTLA-4 deficient mice’

ECR poster runners up

Dr Anjum B Khan (UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation), ‘Targeting therapeutic T-cells to the bone marrow niche’

Dr Natalie Suff (UCL Institute of Women’s Health), ‘A light-producing mouse model of Infection-related Preterm Birth (PTB)’

3R prize

Dr Alexander Maini and Dr Marc Jonathan George (UCL Division of Medicine), ‘A Comparison of Human Neutrophils Acquired from Four Experimental Models of Inflammation’.