WEHI Director’s Seminar hosted by Professor Ken Smith
 

Dr James C. Lee
Clinician Scientist Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute 
Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
University College London, Division of Medicine

Genetic Mechanisms of Disease Laboratory
The Francis Crick Institute, UK

A disease-associated gene desert directs macrophage inflammation through ETS2

 

Davis Auditorium

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Including Q&A session

James is a Clinician Scientist Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute and an Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Free Hospital.  He has a longstanding interest in translating genetic associations into a better understanding of autoimmune disease mechanisms, and is an active member of the UK and International IBD Genetics Consortia. James completed medical training at the University of Oxford (2004) and undertook his PhD at the University of Cambridge with Prof. Ken Smith as part of the inaugural Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Programme (2008-2011). Following his PhD, James completed clinical training in gastroenterology as a clinical lecturer (University of Cambridge), before being awarded a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellowship in 2015. James spent half of this award at Harvard University before returning to the University of Cambridge in 2018 to establish a research group at the newly-opened Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease. He joined the Crick as a Clinician Scientist Group Leader in 2021. James’ work has been recognised with numerous prizes including the Julia Bodmer Award (European Federation of Immunogenetics, 2017), the Sir Francis Avery-Jones Medal (British Society of Gastroenterology, 2018), the United European Gastroenterology Society Rising Star Award (2018), and a Lister Prize (2021)

 All welcome!