Jonathan Boulter Memorial Lecture - Science Never Sleeps

Mae'r digwyddiad hwn wedi dod i ben

The South Wales Immunology Group present the Jonathan Boulter 10 year anniversary memorial lecture:

"Science Never Sleeps" by Dr Bent Jakobsen, PhD FMedSci.

Seminar hosted by Professor Andrew Sewell.

Speaker profile

Dr Bent Jakobsen co-founded Immunocore in 2008 and has served as Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Board Member since that time.

He is also scientific co-founder of Adaptimmune Ltd, where he provides strategic and advisory input as well as oversight of research programmes.

He was previously Chief Scientific Officer of Avidex, a company he founded in 1999 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford to develop novel T cell receptor-based drugs.

Dr Jakobsen was head of the Immune Receptor Group at the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) in Oxford from 1993 to July 2000. Prior to this, he was a Senior Research Fellow of the Danish Natural Research Council, Aarhus, Denmark, and undertook post-doctoral research at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge.

Dr Jakobsen has authored numerous scientific papers and is considered a world expert in the field of T cell receptor immunology.