The Inflammation, Repair and Development Section’s seminar series continues by welcoming Dr Darius Armstrong-James, a Reader in Infectious Diseases and Medical Mycology in the Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London. He is also an honorary consultant physician in infectious diseases and medical mycology at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust and Imperial College Healthcare. 

Darius performed his PhD under the supervision of Ken Haynes, Tom Rogers and Elaine Bignell at Imperial on fungal host adaptation. In 2010, he was subsequently awarded an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship to establish the fungal immunobiology laboratory in the Department of Medicine at Imperial in 2010. In 2014, he moved to the NHLI to further develop academic medical mycology and clinical infectious diseases within the NHLI.

Darius’s research focuses on studying pulmonary innate immunity to Aspergillus fumigatus, with a particular focus on macrophage biology and signal transduction during fungal infection. He has a strong interest in fungal genomics and in investigating the link between fungal germination, endosomal sensing and cell death responses. His laboratory adopts a range of multidisciplinary approaches including molecular immunology, single cell imaging, animal models and clinical studies.