
Anne O'Garra
- Lab: Immunoregulation and Infection Laboratory
- Job Title: Group Leader
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- Phone Number: +44 (0)20 3796 1547
Qualifications and History
- 1983 PhD Microbiology MRC-NIMR, London, UK
- 1984-1987 Post Doctoral Fellow Immunology MRC-NIMR, London, UK
- 1987-1990 Post Doctoral Fellow Immunology DNAX Research Institute (now Merck), Palo Alto, California, USA.
- 1991-2001 - Group Leader/Principal Scientist, DNAX Research Institute, California, USA.
- 2001 Group Leader and Head of Division, Immunoregulation, Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK.
- 2015 Associate Research Director (Group Leader Immunoregulation and Infection), the Francis Crick Institute.
Anne O'Garra obtained her PhD in microbiology and undertook a Postdoctoral Fellowship in immunology at the Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR; now part of the Francis Crick Institute) in London. At the DNAX Research Institute, California, USA (1987-2001), as an independent group leader, she defined functions and mechanisms for cytokines in the immune response, for which she was named 2nd of Highly Cited Authors in Immunology, 1992-2002 (ISI Science Indicators).
Anne returned to the UK in 2001 to form the Division of Immunoregulation at NIMR, to interface research in immunology and infectious diseases. Anne continues research on the role and function of cytokines in the immune response and how key cytokines are regulated at the transcriptional level. Her group now also study the immune response in tuberculosis in mouse models and human disease.
Anne is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow of the Royal Society, UK; EMBO member; member of a number of Scientific Advisory Boards, including the Keystone Conferences and an Editor of the Journal of Experimental Medicine. As an advocate of Women-In-Science O'Garra chaired the Athena Swan Institute Pilot Bronze award for the NIMR.
Year published
Research topics
- Biochemistry & Proteomics (1)
- Cell Biology (2)
- Cell Cycle & Chromosomes (1)
- Chemical Biology & High Throughput (6)
- Computational & Systems Biology (30)
- Developmental Biology (2)
- Gene Expression (2)
- Genetics & Genomics (6)
- Genome Integrity & Repair (5)
- Human Biology & Physiology (30)
- Imaging (1)
- Immunology (30)
- Infectious Disease (30)
- Metabolism (1)
- Microfabrication & Bioengineering (1)
- Model Organisms (30)
- Neurosciences (2)
- Signalling & Oncogenes (2)
- Stem Cells (1)
- Structural Biology & Biophysics (1)
- Synthetic Biology (2)
- Tumour Biology (6)
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Journal
- American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (1)
- Annual Review of Immunology (1)
- Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology (1)
- Current Opinion in Immunology (3)
- Current Opinion in Virology (1)
- Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (1)
- Disease Models & Mechanisms (1)
- European Journal of Immunology (5)
- European Respiratory Journal (1)
- Immunity (1)
- Immunological Reviews (1)
- Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (1)
- Journal of Experimental Medicine (5)
- Journal of Immunology (12)
- Journal of Infectious Diseases (2)
- Microbial Pathogenesis (1)
- Mucosal Immunology (1)
- Nature (2)
- Nature Communications (4)
- Nature Immunology (6)
- Nature Medicine (1)
- Nature Reviews Immunology (3)
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences (2)
- PLOS ONE (6)
- PLOS Pathogens (1)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1)
- Scientific Reports (1)
- The Lancet (1)
- Trends in Immunology (1)
- Wellcome Open Research (1)