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Transplantation Immunology & Mucosal Biology
|MPhil/PhD
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- 2008 RAE Result: In the last RAE over 70 per cent of our research outputs and activities were rated as world leading or internationally excellent. The MRC Centre for Transplantation received special mention for its contribution to sustainable research in the field.
- Research income: Formed in autumn 2010 the Division received over £5 million of research grant awards in its first year.
- Current number of research teams: 30.
- Current number of PhD students: 46.
- Recent publications:
- Inhbition of thrombin recepetor signaling on a-smooth muscle actin(+) CF34(+) progenitors leads to repair after murine immune vascular injury. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2012.
- A rapid diagnostic test for human regulatory T-cell function to enable regulatory T-cell therapy. Blood 2012.
- Monocytes control natural killer cell differentiation to effector phenotypes. Blood 2011.
- Complement regulator CD46 temporally regulates cytokine production by conventional and unconventional T cells. Nature Immunology 2010.
- Development of a cross-platform biomarkers signature to detect renal transplant tolerance in humans. J Clin Invest 2010.
- Strategies for Translational Research in the United Kingdom. Sci Tran Med 2010
- The immortality of humoral immunity. Immun Rev 2010.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Steven Sacks
Awarding institution
King's College London
Duration
FT 4 years; PT 6 years.
Location
Guy's or Denmark Hill Campus.
Student destinations
Successful PhD students from the Division have moved on to successful careers elsewhere, many remaining in research at prestigious universities including Oxford, University College London and the University of California, San Francisco.
Year of entry 2013
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