General
Keynote speaker: Ken Smith
Title lecture: Iron Dysregulation and Stress Erythropoiesis Associates with poor Long-Term Outcome of COVID-19
Dr. Smith is Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, and directs the Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease. He trained in nephrology and clinical immunology in Melbourne, and completed his PhD at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
The Smith laboratory integrates sophisticated genetics with human and animal studies and uses advanced bioinformatic methodology to uncover fundamental immunological mechanisms that are relevant to human disease, and to translate these results into applications of direct benefit to patients.The lab runs a translational program in autoimmune disease (particularly SLE, vasculitis and IBD) that has led to the discovery of a prognosis-predicting biomarker entering clinical trials, and to the identification of new pathways driving disease outcomes in autoimmunity and infection. During the pandemic the lab has led a programme focussed on immune responses to SARS-CoV-2.
Host: Derk Amsen, Inflammatory diseases program
AII seminar on location: 16:00 - 17:00 hrs
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