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UCL Infection, Immunology and Inflammation (III) Symposium 2015

By ucyow3c, on 19 October 2015

pencil-icon Written by Susan Liu (UCL Pharmacy)

Symposium audience

On Wednesday 14 October, academics from top London institutions flocked to the UCL Institute of Child Health for the annual UCL Infection, Immunology and Inflammation (III) Symposium. This year saw the symposium expand its breadth to new topics never covered previously, ranging from inflammatory eye diseases to applying mathematical modeling to CD8+ T cells.

Immune pathology in tissues
Starting the day strong, Professor Tom MacDonald (Barts Health and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London) highlighted the importance of his research in his talk ‘Proteolytic degradation of therapeutic antibodies in the inflamed gut’.

This talk highlighted the effects the body’s microenvironments may have on drugs, emphasising the future of medicine towards becoming more personalised, a vision that UCL aims to direct its research towards through the UCL Personalised Medicine Domain. The reversibility of fibrosis and cirrhosis and T cell cardiotropism were also explored in this session.

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