Innate Immunity
Group Lead
Professor Anthony Dorling
Innate immune factors play a critical role in initiating and shaping adaptive immune responses and this is as true for the immune response against autoantigens and transplanted organs as it is for responses against microbial antigens. Research in this section encompasses a diverse set of projects, united by the underlying theme of investigating the importance of innate factors in transplantation, autoimmune renal disease and urological malignancies. The ambition of all the research in this area is to translate this knowledge into new and innovative therapies for clinical application.
The Innate Immunity Section includes research groups working on the following research areas: