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).
Research
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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
King's College London Awarded £2.6M MRC Programme Grant to Advance Research into Food Allergy and Oral Tolerance in Early Life
King’s College London researchers have been awarded a prestigious £2.6 million Programme Grant from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Infections and Immunity...
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...
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...
Academic Promotions
Many congratulations to the following members of the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences who have been awarded academic promotions during the...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
Research
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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
King's College London Awarded £2.6M MRC Programme Grant to Advance Research into Food Allergy and Oral Tolerance in Early Life
King’s College London researchers have been awarded a prestigious £2.6 million Programme Grant from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Infections and Immunity...
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...
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...
Academic Promotions
Many congratulations to the following members of the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences who have been awarded academic promotions during the...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...