
George Kassiotis
- Lab: Retroviral Immunology Laboratory
- Job Title: Group Leader
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- Phone Number: +44 (0)20 3796 1483
Qualifications and history
- 2000 PhD in Immunology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece
- 2000 Post-doctoral Fellow, Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research (MRC NIMR), London, UK
- 2005 Programme Leader Track, MRC NIMR, London, UK
- 2011 Programme Leader, MRC NIMR, London, UK
- 2015 Senior group Leader, the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
George Kassiotis is currently a Senior Group Leader and head of the laboratory of Retroviral Immunology at the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. He is also a Professor of Retrovirology, at the Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK, and recipient of a New Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust, UK. His doctoral studies, with Lesley Probert and George Kollias at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece, focused on transgenic mouse models for human neuroimmunological diseases.
He carried out postdoctoral studies with Brigitta Stockinger at the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London, UK, on T cell homeostasis and immunological memory. His laboratory's current work concentrates on innate and adaptive immune responses to endogenous and exogenous retroviruses.
Year published
Research topics
- Biochemistry & Proteomics (3)
- Cell Biology (4)
- Cell Cycle & Chromosomes (4)
- Chemical Biology & High Throughput (6)
- Computational & Systems Biology (28)
- Developmental Biology (3)
- Gene Expression (1)
- Genetics & Genomics (28)
- Genome Integrity & Repair (4)
- Human Biology & Physiology (4)
- Imaging (2)
- Immunology (26)
- Infectious Disease (16)
- Metabolism (4)
- Microfabrication & Bioengineering (1)
- Model Organisms (27)
- Neurosciences (3)
- Signalling & Oncogenes (5)
- Stem Cells (5)
- Structural Biology & Biophysics (16)
- Synthetic Biology (1)
- Tumour Biology (5)
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Journal
- BioEssays (1)
- Blood (1)
- Cancer Immunology Research (1)
- Cell Host & Microbe (1)
- Cell Reports (1)
- Cellular and Molecular Immunology (1)
- Current Opinion in Immunology (1)
- eLife (1)
- EMBO Journal (1)
- FEMS Microbiology Reviews (1)
- Frontiers in Immunology (2)
- Frontiers in Microbiology (1)
- Genome Medicine: medicine in the post-genomic era (1)
- Genome Research (1)
- Immunity (1)
- Journal of Experimental Medicine (1)
- Journal of General Virology (1)
- Journal of Immunology (7)
- Journal of Leukocyte Biology (1)
- Journal of Virology (2)
- Nature (2)
- Nature Biotechnology (1)
- Nature Communications (1)
- Nature Genetics (1)
- Nature Reviews Immunology (1)
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences (1)
- PLOS Pathogens (3)
- Retrovirology (3)
- Science (1)
- Scientific Reports (1)
- The Lancet (1)
- Wellcome Open Research (1)