John Humphrey Seminar Series | Immunology & Infectious Diseases
Professor Anne Bowcock, Chair in Cancer Genomics, Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute
“Molecular genetic basis of psoriasis, an inflammatory disease of the skin and other organs”
Thursday 16 February 2017 at 1pm
Lecture Theatre II, Wolfson Centre, Hammersmith Campus. Lectures will also be streamed to meeting room 368, Faculty of Medicine Building, St Mary’s Campus, and SAF G70, South Kensington Campus.
Professor Bowcock is an international leader in the identification of the genes underlying psoriasis, most recently discovering rare and common variants in CARD14 that lead to psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Through functional studies of CARD14 variants she was able to show that disease-causing mutations lead to enhanced activation of NF-kB, and many of the features of the inflammatory psoriatic skin. She has been involved in the identification of other psoriasis risk factors through collaborative Genome Wide Association Studies.
For further information please contact Professor Marina Botto (m.botto@imperial.ac.uk). Or, if you would like to meet the speaker, please contact Dawn Al-Ardhromli (d.al-ardhromli@imperial.ac.uk).