Fiona Powrie#
| Membership Number: | 4343 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/team/fiona-powrie |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Director, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford
- 2014 - present Principle Investigator, Translational Gastroenterology, University of Oxford
- 2009 - 2014 Sidney Truelove Professor of Gastroenterology, University of Oxford
- 2009 - 2014 Head of Translational Gastroenterology, University of Oxford
- 2001 - 2009 Professor of Immunology, University of Oxford
- 1996 - 2009 Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
- 1993 - 1996 Senior Research Associate, DNAX Research Institute
- 1990 - 1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, DNAX Research Institute
Fields of Scholarship
- Regulatory T cells
- Mucosal immunology
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Innate lymphoid cells
- Inflammatory cytokines
- Inflammation
- Immune regulation
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Lloyd Mayer Award for Mucosal Immunology
- 2015 Honorary degree of Doctor of Science, University of Bath
- 2014 Jean Shanks Lecture, Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2014 Hartmann Muller Award and Lecture
- 2014 Keystone Symposium-Cytokine Networks, Plenary Lecture
- 2013 Society of Mucosal Immunology Achievement Award and Keynote Lecture
- 2013 European Research Council Advanced Grant Award
- 2012 EMBO Member
- 2012 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2011 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2011 International Cytokine Society Keynote Lecture
- 2011-2013 Visiting Professor, Centre for Immune regulation, University of Oslo
- 2011 Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award
- 2010 U Penn Immunology Program retreat Guru
- 2009 EFIS-EJI Askonas Award for European Immunology
- 2009 Keynote Lecture FASEB meeting on lymphocyte signalling Keynote Lecture
- 2008 NIH WALS Directors Lecture
- 2007 NIH Immunology retreat Guru and Visiting Professor
- 2006 Honorary SGO Johansson’s lecture Swedish Medical Convention
- 2005 European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS) lecturer
- 2004 Honorary member of Scandinavian Society of Immunology
- 2003 Eijkman Medal (University of Utrecht)-Recognition of outstanding achievement in immunology
- 1995 Schering Plough Achievement Award
