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Biography
I am a Research Fellow in the laboratory of Steven Sacks, with whom I completed my PhD. I have been involved in complement research for almost 25 years now, with a focus on the kidney. The kidney has the ability to produce a variety of complement components, providing the kidney unique opportunities to respond rapidly to inflammatory stimuli. We have been able to harness this facet of the renal environment to develop tailor-made therapeutic strategies aimed at transiently curtailing local complement production. As a consequence, local renal inflammation can be significantly dampened without affecting peripheral anti-inflammatory effector mechanisms of the complement system.
Research
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Sacks Group
Examining how locally made components of the defence system influence the acceptance of foreign tissue or cell grafts
Research
![Skin tissue thumbnail (780 × 440 px)](/newimages/folsm/thumbnail-pages/sims/skin-tissue-thumbnail-780-×-440-px.x90be0b11.png?width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Sacks Group
Examining how locally made components of the defence system influence the acceptance of foreign tissue or cell grafts