Jean Langhorne

Director, Crick Africa Network & Principal Group Leader

Jean Langhorne is a group leader at the Francis Crick Institute. She obtained her BSc at Bedford College, University of London, and an MSc at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

After her PhD at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Research Centre, London UK, she carried out postdoctoral training in the immunology of malaria with Sydney Cohen at Guy's Hospital Medical School, London, and then moved to the Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland.

She was awarded a Fogarty fellowship to join the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes of Health in the USA. After four years she moved to the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, Germany, to establish her own group.

Jean moved to the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) in 1998 as a group leader, and her current research interests are in understanding the regulation of protective and pathogenic immune responses in experimental models of malaria and the human infected with Plasmodium falciparum

Qualifications and history

1979
MRC clinical Research Centre and University College, London, UK
PhD
1979
Basel for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland
Member of Staff
1984
Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Germany
Group leader
1995
Imperial College London, London, UK
Lecturer/Reader in Immunobiology
1998
Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
Group Leader
2015
The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Group Leader