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 (1)
- Cell Biology (1)
- Cell Cycle & Chromosomes (1)
- Chemical Biology & High Throughput (2)
- Computational & Systems Biology (1)
- Genetics & Genomics (2)
- Genome Integrity & Repair (1)
- Human Biology & Physiology (20)
- Imaging (1)
- Immunology (20)
- Infectious Disease (20)
- Metabolism (1)
- Model Organisms (20)
- Structural Biology & Biophysics (1)
- Synthetic Biology (1)
- Tumour Biology (1)
Publication type
Journal
- ACS Central Science (1)
- Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (1)
- Clinical Infectious Diseases (2)
- Clinical Microbiology and Infection (1)
- European Respiratory Journal (1)
- Frontiers in Immunology (1)
- Frontiers in Virology (1)
- International Journal of Infectious Diseases (2)
- Journal of Neuroinflammation (1)
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases (3)
- PLOS Genetics (1)
- PLOS Pathogens (1)
- Scientific Reports (1)
- Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases (1)
- Tuberculosis (2)