George Kassiotis
Principal Group Leader
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.
Qualifications and history
Year published
Research topics
- Biochemistry & Proteomics (10)
- Cell Biology (11)
- Cell Cycle & Chromosomes (13)
- Chemical Biology & High Throughput (14)
- Computational & Systems Biology (24)
- Developmental Biology (7)
- Genetics & Genomics (24)
- Genome Integrity & Repair (18)
- Human Biology & Physiology (12)
- Imaging (3)
- Immunology (24)
- Infectious Disease (14)
- Metabolism (12)
- Model Organisms (24)
- Neurosciences (9)
- Signalling & Oncogenes (14)
- Stem Cells (11)
- Structural Biology & Biophysics (17)
- Tumour Biology (14)
Journal
- Blood Advances (1)
- British Journal of Anaesthesia (1)
- Cancer Cell (1)
- Cell (1)
- Cellular and Molecular Immunology (1)
- Critical Care Explorations (1)
- eLife (1)
- Frontiers in Microbiology (1)
- Immunity (1)
- Journal of Critical Care (1)
- Lancet (1)
- Med (1)
- Molecular Biology and Evolution (1)
- Nature Cancer (3)
- Nature Medicine (1)
- Oncogene (1)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA (1)
- Science advances (1)
- Seminars in Immunology (1)
- The Lancet (2)
- Wellcome Open Research (1)