The Neves Lab aims understand how the different cellular compartments of the gut – including immune, epithelial, microbial and neural cells – communicate with each other, to then be able to direct those conversations to promote gut homeostasis. We work with mouse and human models to accelerate the translation of our discoveries.

Publications
Awards
Research grants:
2019 – 2020 King’s Together Strategic Award “Intestinal organoid platform to facilitate multidisciplinary multidisease studies”, PI (£99,989).
2019 – 2020 Cancer Research UK & VersusArthritis Innovation grant “Extracellular matrix (ECM) programming of pathogenic macrophages”, co-PI, (£45,000)
2017 – 2020 RCUK/UKRI Rutherford Fund Fellow, UKRI, UK; “The crosstalks between immune cells, bacteria and epithelial cells in the intestine: elucidating their cellular and molecular mechanisms”, Fellow (£286,000.00)
2016 – 2019 Seed Award, Wellcome Trust, UK ; A novel system to study intestinal lymphocytes”, PI (£99,951.00)
2017 – 2018 BRC STEM Early Career Award, UK; Intestinal-immune-interactions-in-a-dish for the validation of microbiome biomarkers for Geraldine Jowett , Supervisor (£10,000)
2017 King’s Prize Fellowship, UK; “A novel approach for the study of intestinal lymphocytes“, Fellow (£43,146.00)
2016-2018 Parent Leave Fund, KCL, UK, PI (£9,805)
2016-2018 Research & Development Challenge Fund, Kings Health Partners, UK; “IL22: friend or foe in innate immune mediated inflammatory bowel disease”. Co-PI (£72,056)
2015-2017 Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission; The role of innate lymphoid cells in regulating intestinal inflammation”, Fellow (£132,975)
2014-2015 BRC STEM Early Career Award, UK; “Establishment of human mini-guts as a tool to study human intestinal lymphocyte populations”, PI (£10,000)
Publications
Awards
Research grants:
2019 – 2020 King’s Together Strategic Award “Intestinal organoid platform to facilitate multidisciplinary multidisease studies”, PI (£99,989).
2019 – 2020 Cancer Research UK & VersusArthritis Innovation grant “Extracellular matrix (ECM) programming of pathogenic macrophages”, co-PI, (£45,000)
2017 – 2020 RCUK/UKRI Rutherford Fund Fellow, UKRI, UK; “The crosstalks between immune cells, bacteria and epithelial cells in the intestine: elucidating their cellular and molecular mechanisms”, Fellow (£286,000.00)
2016 – 2019 Seed Award, Wellcome Trust, UK ; A novel system to study intestinal lymphocytes”, PI (£99,951.00)
2017 – 2018 BRC STEM Early Career Award, UK; Intestinal-immune-interactions-in-a-dish for the validation of microbiome biomarkers for Geraldine Jowett , Supervisor (£10,000)
2017 King’s Prize Fellowship, UK; “A novel approach for the study of intestinal lymphocytes“, Fellow (£43,146.00)
2016-2018 Parent Leave Fund, KCL, UK, PI (£9,805)
2016-2018 Research & Development Challenge Fund, Kings Health Partners, UK; “IL22: friend or foe in innate immune mediated inflammatory bowel disease”. Co-PI (£72,056)
2015-2017 Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission; The role of innate lymphoid cells in regulating intestinal inflammation”, Fellow (£132,975)
2014-2015 BRC STEM Early Career Award, UK; “Establishment of human mini-guts as a tool to study human intestinal lymphocyte populations”, PI (£10,000)
Group lead
Joana Neves
Lecturer in Mucosal Immunology and Group Leader
Contact us
Dr Joana Neves
Lecturer in Mucosal Immunology and Group Leader
Guy's Tower Wing
Guy's Hospital
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