Inflammation

Inflammation represents the coordinated immune response to infection, trauma and injury.

When appropriately controlled, inflammation ensures competent host defence and prevents excessive damage of the affected tissue or organ structure.

In chronic inflammatory diseases, this process is disrupted and instead of offering protection, drives disease progression.

Theme lead

Emeritus Professor

Cytokine immunology in chronic disease progression.

Name	Area of interest
Professor Ernest Choy	Clinical rheumatology and biologic drug therapies
Professor Andrew Finlay	Infection
Professor Paul Martin	Cancer and wound healing
Dr John Ingram	Clinical dermatology
Professor Valerie O'Donnell	Lipidomics
Professor Peter Collins	Clinical haematology and clotting
Professor Paul Morgan	Complement biology, neuroimmunology
Professor Kathy Triantafilou
Dr Martha Triantafilou	Innate sensing mechanisms
Dr Timothy Hughes	Complement biology, cardiovascular disease
Professor Donald Fraser	Clinical nephrology and fibrosis
Dr Timothy Bowen	MicroRNA
Dr Anne-Catherine Raby	Innate sensing mechanisms
Professor Aled Phillips	Clinical nephrology and renal scarring
Dr Soma Meran	Clinical nephrology and fibrosis
Professor Philip Taylor	Monocytic cell biology
Professor Anwen Williams	Experimental rheumatology
Dr Gareth Jones	Cytokine immunology in chronic disease progression
Dr Selinda Orr	Innate sensing mechanisms