On Thursday 4 February 2016, there will be a Centre for
Inflammatory Diseases Special Seminar presented by Professor Ken Smith.
Thursday 4 February, 12:00 - 1:00pm
Seminar Room 1, Level 2, TRF Building
Ken Smith is a practising nephrologist who heads the
Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, and among other things
is establishing the Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and
Infectious Diseases (due to open in 2018). Smith’s own laboratory runs a
translational programme in autoimmune disease (particularly SLE, vasculitis and
inflammatory bowel disease) that has led to the discovery of a novel
prognosis-predicting biomarker now entering clinical trials, and the
identification of genes and pathways involved in disease pathogenesis. Its
major focus is on determining the biology that underpins differential long-term
outcome in patients with immune-mediated disease. In parallel he studies basic immunological
mechanisms, and how defects in regulatory control of the immune system can lead
to autoimmunity and alter defence against infection. In 2006 he was elected a
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, in 2007 was awarded the Lister
Institute Research Prize, and in 2013 the Distinguished Innovator Award of the
Lupus research Institute.
A light lunch is served prior to the seminar at
11:45am in the seminar room foyer, level 2, TRF Building.
Further details can be found on the CID Special Seminars website
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