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Joana Neves

Dr Joana Neves

Senior Lecturer in Mucosal Immunology

Research interests

  • Immunology

Biography

Joana F Neves is a Senior Lecturer in Mucosal Immunology, group leader at King’s College London and 2023 Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Prize winner. Joana completed her PhD in developmental immunology at Queen Mary University of London before moving to the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School to study immunological responses in colitis.

In 2014, Joana joined King’s College London where she held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, a King’s Prize fellowship and a RCUK/UKRI Rutherford Fund fellowship before establishing her research group and becoming a Lecturer. Her work has been funded by the Wellcome, UKRI, MRC, EPSRC, NC3R, BBSRC, Royal Society and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

Joana and her team developed complex intestinal organoid systems that incorporate immune, stromal, neuronal and microbial components to study cell interactions in health and disease, which already lead to the discover of new roles for Innate Lymphoid Cells (ILC) in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).

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Research

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Neves Lab

The Neves lab aims understand how the different cellular compartments of the gut communicate with each other, to then be able to direct those conversations to promote gut homeostasis.

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Spatial Biology Network

The Spatial Biology Network is a cross-faculty research interest group that brings together researchers from various disciplines, ranging from technology development and molecular biology, to bioinformatics and clinical translational research, to explore the complexity of spatial biology.

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The Multiscale Biofilm Research Hub (MBRH)

The Multiscale Biofilm Research Hub (MBRH) has been established to promote interdisciplinary interactions and focus microbial biofilm related research at King’s.

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Biofilms at mucosal surfaces

The study of dental caries, periodontitis, vaginal dysbiosis, chronic inflammatory diseases & infections within the oral cavity, intestinal tract & lungs

Project status: Ongoing

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Microbes in Health & Disease

The Microbes in Health & Diseases Research Interest Group aims to foster collaboration across departments and faculties at KCL to explore the multifaceted role microbes play in health and disease.

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The Francis Crick Institute

King’s is delighted to be a founding academic partner alongside UCL and Imperial College in the Francis Crick Institute, joining the multidisciplinary research expertise from all the Partners together to deliver world-leading biomedical research.

News

Dr Joana Neves presented with Lister Institute Research Prize Fellowship

The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine funds research that is crucial to our understanding of health and disease. Dr Joana F Neves, Senior Lecturer in...

Dr Joanna Neves Lister Award Lecture-027

Joana Neves project awarded grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust

Joana F. Neves, Senior Lecturer in Mucosal Immunology and Group Leader in the Centre for Host-Microbiome Interactions is the lead investigator on a...

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Academic Promotions

Many congratulations to the following members of the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences who have been awarded academic promotions during the...

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Funding awarded to further develop alternative model to animal research

Human organoid model was originally developed by Neves Lab to generate mucosal immune cell populations.

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Gut and lung organoids open the door to innate immune cell therapies

King’s researchers have found an innovative approach for expanding and maturing innate immune cells in a dish.

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Rare immune cells drive gut repair, but can tip toward cancer or fibrosis in inflammatory bowel disease

Scientists from King’s College London have discovered an unexpected tissue reparative role for a rare immune cell type in the gut.

The newly designed synthetic hydrogel.

Team awarded King's Together funding to set up platform to study complex disease

An interdisciplinary group of researchers has received a King's Together Strategic Award for a year to establish a platform to facilitate inter- and...

An interdisciplinary group of researchers has received funding for a year to establish a platform to facilitate inter- and multidisciplinary disease studies.

Features

The Science our Women in STEMM create

Find out about some of the activities the students and staff in the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences are up to during the Women in STEMM...

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The publication feed is not currently available.

Research

neves-group-banner
Neves Lab

The Neves lab aims understand how the different cellular compartments of the gut communicate with each other, to then be able to direct those conversations to promote gut homeostasis.

Spatial Biology hero
Spatial Biology Network

The Spatial Biology Network is a cross-faculty research interest group that brings together researchers from various disciplines, ranging from technology development and molecular biology, to bioinformatics and clinical translational research, to explore the complexity of spatial biology.

MBRH-LOGO
The Multiscale Biofilm Research Hub (MBRH)

The Multiscale Biofilm Research Hub (MBRH) has been established to promote interdisciplinary interactions and focus microbial biofilm related research at King’s.

MBRH theme1
Biofilms at mucosal surfaces

The study of dental caries, periodontitis, vaginal dysbiosis, chronic inflammatory diseases & infections within the oral cavity, intestinal tract & lungs

Project status: Ongoing

Hero_Microbes_RIG-thumbnail
Microbes in Health & Disease

The Microbes in Health & Diseases Research Interest Group aims to foster collaboration across departments and faculties at KCL to explore the multifaceted role microbes play in health and disease.

Crick
The Francis Crick Institute

King’s is delighted to be a founding academic partner alongside UCL and Imperial College in the Francis Crick Institute, joining the multidisciplinary research expertise from all the Partners together to deliver world-leading biomedical research.

News

Dr Joana Neves presented with Lister Institute Research Prize Fellowship

The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine funds research that is crucial to our understanding of health and disease. Dr Joana F Neves, Senior Lecturer in...

Dr Joanna Neves Lister Award Lecture-027

Joana Neves project awarded grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust

Joana F. Neves, Senior Lecturer in Mucosal Immunology and Group Leader in the Centre for Host-Microbiome Interactions is the lead investigator on a...

joana.neves

Academic Promotions

Many congratulations to the following members of the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences who have been awarded academic promotions during the...

A sparkler against a dark background

Funding awarded to further develop alternative model to animal research

Human organoid model was originally developed by Neves Lab to generate mucosal immune cell populations.

neves-group-about-us

Gut and lung organoids open the door to innate immune cell therapies

King’s researchers have found an innovative approach for expanding and maturing innate immune cells in a dish.

Jowlett 3

Rare immune cells drive gut repair, but can tip toward cancer or fibrosis in inflammatory bowel disease

Scientists from King’s College London have discovered an unexpected tissue reparative role for a rare immune cell type in the gut.

The newly designed synthetic hydrogel.

Team awarded King's Together funding to set up platform to study complex disease

An interdisciplinary group of researchers has received a King's Together Strategic Award for a year to establish a platform to facilitate inter- and...

An interdisciplinary group of researchers has received funding for a year to establish a platform to facilitate inter- and multidisciplinary disease studies.

Features

The Science our Women in STEMM create

Find out about some of the activities the students and staff in the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences are up to during the Women in STEMM...

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