The ten science-inspired works aim to give visual ‘narrative’ to complex scientific processes drawing from techniques, concepts and disease pathologies within his research. It includes illustrations that have been accepted into the Wellcome image collection.
The exhibition will be open with a grand ceremony on 16 October, which is free to attend and open to all.
Entrance to the Centre is via third floor Sherfield building (between number 20 and 25 on the campus map).
Biography
Neil Dufton graduated from the University of Bath with a BSc (Hon) Pharmacology in 2006. He went on to undertake a PhD at the William Harvey Research Institute within the Bart’s and the London Medical School with Professors Perretti and Flower. The project focused on the interaction of the anti-inflammatory protein Annexin 1 with its receptor FPR2/ALX in regualting innate immunology and the resolution of inflammation.
In 2010 he moved to Canada for two years to work with Professor John Wallace at the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, McMaster University investigating the role of hydrogen sulfide gas in regulating inflammation.
On returning to the UK in 2012 Neil became a post-doctoral research associate at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) at Imperial College London with Dr Anna Randi. Dr Randi’s group is focused on endothelial homeostasis, angiogenesis and inflammation in vascular biology