Imperial College London

ProfessorRobertWilkinson

Faculty of MedicineDepartment of Infectious Disease

Professor in Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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Contact

 

r.j.wilkinson Website

 
 
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Location

 

Commonwealth BuildingHammersmith Campus

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Summary

 

Collaborators

Clifton Barry III, National Institutes for Health, Tuberculosis, 2013

Gary Maartens, University of Cape Town

Anne O’Garra, National Institute for Medical Research

Guest Lectures

The pathogenesis of the HIV-tuberculosis associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Basel, 2016

How latent is latent tuberculosis?, Fondation Mérieux, Veyrier-du-Lac, France, 2016

Interaction between antimicrobial and adjunctive therapies and the immune response to tuberculosis, 16th International Congress of Infectious Diseases, Cape Town, 2016

Understanding and intervening in HIV-associated tuberculosis, Francis Crick Institute, London, 2016

How latent is latent tuberculosis, Keystone Symposium, Keystone, CO, 2016

Understanding and intervening in HIV-associated tuberculosis, Royal College of Physicians of London, London, 2015

Safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of the candidate tuberculosis vaccine MVA85A in healthy HIV-1-infected adults: a randomized, placebo-controlled phase 2 trial, Keystone symposia, Santa Fe, NM, 2015

The application of, and opportunities for, genomics to improve understanding of HIV-TB interaction in the context of global health, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, 2015

Transcriptional profiling in human tuberculosis, European Federation of Immunology Societies Tatra meeting, Strbské Pleso, Slovakia, 2014

Images of the new spectrum of tuberculosis, American Thoracic Society, San Diego, CA, 2014

HIV associated tuberculosis: role of host directed therapies to reduce early mortality and TB-IRIS, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, 2014

Interaction between antimicrobial and adjunctive therapies and the immune response to tuberculosis, Keystone symposium, Keystone, CO, 2014

The breath, mind and heart of HIV-associated tuberculosis, University of Edinburgh Kerr Memorial lecture, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, 2013

The breath, heart and mind of HIV-associated tuberculosis, Keystone symposium, Whistler, BC, Canada, 2013

Do hypoxia-inducible M. tuberculosis genes encode useful antigens?, Keystone symposium plenary talk, Tuberculosis: Immunology, Cell Biology and Novel Vaccination Strategies, Vancouver, BC, 2011

Learning about tuberculosis from HIV infected people, Keystone symposium plenary talk, Overcoming the crisis of TB and AIDS, Arusha, Tanzania, 2009

‘Association between the HIV-tuberculosis associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome and antitubercular drug resistance’. Plenary presentation to Symposium 10,, 39th World conference of the International Union against tuberculosis and lung disease., Paris, France, 2008

‘The T cell response to M. tuberculosis in HIV infected people’, John Humphrey seminar, Hammersmith Hospital London, 2008

‘Research priorities in Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome’ Session chair and discussant AIDS priorities: controversies in HIV meeting., Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Cape Town, 2008

Novel association between antitubercular drug resistance and the HIV-tuberculosis associated immune reconstiution inflammatory syndrome’, Invited plenary speaker and session chair, International tuberculosis research center annual retreat, Seoul, Korea, 2008

Emerging issues in drug resistant tuberculosis in South Africa’, Invited plenary speaker at International workshop on MDR-Tuberculosis, Foundation for Medical Research Mumbai, held in Lonavala, India, 2008

‘Th1 and FoxP3 positive T cells and the HIV-tuberculosis immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome’, Acid-Fast Club, Leicester, 2008

‘The T cell response to M. tuberculosis in HIV infected people’., Invited seminar at Forscungscentrum, Borstel, Germany, 2008

The T cell response to M. tuberculosis in HIV infected people’., Plenary speaker at the 7th International Congress on the pathogenesis of mycobacterial diseases, Stockholm, 2008

‘The pathogenesis of HIV-tuberculosis immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome’ Physicians’ refresher course, Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town,, 2008

Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen specific T cell expansions and the pathogenesis of the HIV-TB IRIS’, Poster discussion Conference on retroviruses and opportunistic infections, Boston MA, 2008

Research Staff

Rockwood,N

Rockwood,N

Research Student Supervision

Esmail,H, How latent is latent tuberculosis?

Jacobs,A, Antibodies and tuberculosis

Lowe,D, Protective role of neutrophils in human tuberculosis

Oni,T, Clinical Epidemiology of HIV associated Tuberculosis in Khayelitsha, a South African Township