Director, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
University of Oxford
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Professor Dame Fiona Powrie, DBE PhD FRS FMedSci, is Director of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Governor of the Wellcome Trust.
She gained a PhD in immunology at the University of Oxford and then moved to the DNAX Research Institute in Palo Alto, before returning to Oxford in 1996 as a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. Prior to her appointment to the Kennedy Institute, Fiona Powrie was the Sidney Truelove Professor of Gastroenterology and Head of the Translational Gastroenterology Unit, Oxford (2009- 2014).
Her research examines the relationship between the intestinal microbiome and the host immune system and how this mutualistic relationship breaks down in inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and cancer.
Fiona Powrie has received numerous prestigious prizes and awards, including the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2012. She was elected an international member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 and was appointed Deputy Chair of the Wellcome Board of Governors and Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE), for services to Medical Science, in 2022.
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Keynote Address - Translating Immunology into New Therapies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
5:30 PM - 6:15 PM
