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 (2)
- Cell Biology (2)
- Cell Cycle & Chromosomes (2)
- Chemical Biology & High Throughput (2)
- Computational & Systems Biology (2)
- Developmental Biology (2)
- Gene Expression (1)
- Genetics & Genomics (2)
- Genome Integrity & Repair (2)
- Human Biology & Physiology (28)
- Imaging (1)
- Immunology (28)
- Infectious Disease (28)
- Metabolism (2)
- Model Organisms (28)
- Neurosciences (2)
- Signalling & Oncogenes (2)
- Stem Cells (2)
- Structural Biology & Biophysics (2)
- Synthetic Biology (1)
- Tumour Biology (2)
Publication type
Journal
- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (1)
- BMJ Open (1)
- Cancer Cell (1)
- Cell Reports Medicine (1)
- EBioMedicine (1)
- European Journal of Immunology (1)
- European Respiratory Journal (2)
- Frontiers in Immunology (1)
- Frontiers in Microbiology (1)
- Frontiers in Psychology (1)
- Gates Open Research (2)
- HIV Medicine (1)
- Infectious Diseases and Therapy (1)
- International Journal of Infectious Diseases (1)
- Journal of Experimental Medicine (1)
- Journal of Immunology (1)
- Lancet Microbe (1)
- Molecular Biology and Evolution (1)
- Nature (1)
- Nature Microbiology (1)
- Nutrients (1)
- Science Translational Medicine (1)
- Scientific Reports (1)
- Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine (1)
- Trials (1)
- Tropical Medicine and International Health (1)