Robert Wilkinson
Principal Group Leader
Before joining the Crick, Robert J Wilkinson was a Medical Research Council (MRC) Programme Leader in the Division of Mycobacterial Research at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research in London and remains a Wellcome Senior Fellow in Clinical Science at Imperial College London.
Both posts are seconded to the University of Cape Town where Wilkinson is an Honorary Professor and directs that university's Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa.
His present research interests include clinical and immunological aspects of tuberculosis, particularly in the context of HIV-1 infection.
Wilkinson trained in medicine in Cambridge and Oxford universities and at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London. He undertook postdoctoral research at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH and at Imperial College before moving to Cape Town in 2004.
Wilkinson has co-authored around 345 articles and reviews on infectious diseases with emphasis on tuberculosis.
Qualifications and history
Year published
Research topics
- Biochemistry & Proteomics (8)
- Cell Biology (11)
- Cell Cycle & Chromosomes (6)
- Chemical Biology & High Throughput (12)
- Computational & Systems Biology (17)
- Developmental Biology (5)
- Gene Expression (1)
- Genetics & Genomics (13)
- Genome Integrity & Repair (11)
- Human Biology & Physiology (158)
- Imaging (5)
- Immunology (157)
- Infectious Disease (158)
- Metabolism (8)
- Model Organisms (156)
- Neurosciences (6)
- Signalling & Oncogenes (6)
- Stem Cells (6)
- Structural Biology & Biophysics (7)
- Synthetic Biology (2)
- Tumour Biology (12)
Publication type
Journal
- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (1)
- ACS Central Science (1)
- AIDS (7)
- AIDS Research and Therapy (1)
- American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (5)
- American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (1)
- Annals of the American Thoracic Society (1)
- Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (5)
- BMC Genomics (1)
- BMC Infectious Diseases (6)
- BMJ Open (1)
- BMJ Paediatrics Open (1)
- British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (1)
- Cancer Cell (1)
- Cell Host & Microbe (1)
- Cell Reports Medicine (1)
- Clinical and Translational Immunology (1)
- Clinical and Vaccine Immunology (1)
- Clinical Infectious Diseases (14)
- Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice (1)
- EBioMedicine (2)
- EJNMMI Research (1)
- eLife (1)
- ESC Heart Failure (1)
- European Journal of Immunology (5)
- European Respiratory Journal (10)
- Experimental and Molecular Pathology (1)
- Frontiers in Immunology (10)
- Frontiers in Microbiology (1)
- Frontiers in Psychology (1)
- Frontiers in Virology (1)
- Gates Open Research (2)
- Infectious Diseases and Therapy (1)
- International Journal of Cardiology Heart & Vasculature (1)
- International Journal of Infectious Diseases (3)
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences (1)
- International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (3)
- JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1)
- JCI insight (3)
- Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (4)
- Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (1)
- Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (1)
- Journal of Clinical Investigation (2)
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology (4)
- Journal of Experimental Medicine (3)
- Journal of Immunology (7)
- Journal of Immunology Research (1)
- Journal of Infection (2)
- Journal of Infectious Diseases (10)
- Journal of Investigative Dermatology (1)
- Journal of Neuroinflammation (1)
- Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (1)
- Lancet (2)
- Lancet Infectious Diseases (2)
- Lancet Microbe (3)
- Lancet Respiratory Medicine (1)
- mBio (1)
- Microbes and Infection (1)
- Molecular Biology and Evolution (2)
- Mucosal Immunology (1)
- Nature (2)
- Nature Cancer (3)
- Nature Communications (4)
- Nature Genetics (1)
- Nature Medicine (2)
- Nature Microbiology (3)
- New England Journal of Medicine (3)
- Nutrients (1)
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases (4)
- PLOS Genetics (1)
- PLOS Medicine (2)
- PLOS ONE (18)
- PLOS Pathogens (5)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (3)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA (1)
- Science Translational Medicine (1)
- Scientific Reports (5)
- South African Medical Journal (4)
- Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine (1)
- Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases (1)
- The Lancet Microbe (1)
- Thorax (1)
- Trials (1)
- Tropical Medicine and International Health (1)
- Tuberculosis (5)
- Wellcome Open Research (3)