John Trowsdale#
| Membership Number: | 6305 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0150-5698 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Emeritus Professor, Cambridge University; private consultant
- 2017 - 2022 Voluntary Director of Research, Emeritus Professor of Immunology, University of Cambridge
- 1997 - 2017 Professor of Immunology, Head: Immunology Division, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge
- 1990 - 1997 Principal Scientist, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, Head: Human Immunogenetics Laboratory
- 1986 - 1990 Research Scientist, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London
- 1982 - 1985 Senior Scientist, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London
- 1982 - 1985 Research Scientist, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London
- 1979 - 1982 University of Oxford, Department of Genetics/Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Supervisor: Sir Walter F. Bodmer
- 1976 - 1979 Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation, La Jolla California. Supervisor: James A. Hoch
- 1974 - 1976 Centre de Genetique Moleculaire, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Supervisor: Constantine Anangnostopoulos
- 1970 - 1973 Ph.D Bacterial Genetics, University of Birmingham
- 1967 - 1970 B.Sc Bacteriology, University of Birmingham
Fields of Scholarship
- HLA
- TRIM21
- Major Histocompatibility Complex
- Immune receptors
- NK
- Co-receptors
- LILR
- Butyrophilin (BTN)
- MHC
- Natural Killer Cell Receptors
Honours and Awards
- 1973 European Fellow of the Biochemical society
- 1979 SRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1997 Chair of BSHI
- 2000 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2002 ISI Highly Cited Researchers (most cited 100 Immunologists)
- 2002 Rose Payne Lecture – ASI, distinguished scientist award
- 2003 Invited Raine visiting Professor (Perth)
- 2004 Ceppellini Lecture (EFI, Sofia)
- 2005 Fellow of World Innovation Foundation
- 2006 Metchnikoff Club Lecture (Edinburgh); Almroth Wright Lecture (St. Mary's)
- 2008 Pillars of Immunology paper (J. Immunol.)
- 2009 Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- 2009 Scientific Committee, EFI
- 2010 Jean Dausset Seminar, Paris
- 2011 Invited visiting Professor, CIR, Oslo
- 2011 Keynote speaker, CRC, Marseille
- 2012 Invited visiting Professor, CIR, Oslo
- 2012 Landsteiner Lecture and Masterclass, Amsterdam
- 2012 Festenstein Lecture, BSHI, Liverpool
- 2016 ERC Advanced Grant
