I am really happy to announce that I have been awarded with a Wellcome Trust Seed Award in Science – I am really honoured to be the first Early Career PI at the Newcastle Faculty of Medical Sciences to get this prestigious award!

We will study Sex-dependent gene regulation in immune cells, mining publicly available transcriptomics and epigenomics datasets. The goal is to understand how the “same” immune cell type can show different gene expression patterns in men and women, and how these differences can explain their different immune responses. We are based at the Immunology, Inflammation and Immunotherapy research theme of the Institute of Cellular Medicine and will collaborate with my experimental colleagues to experimentally explore the relevance of our findings in different disease contexts.

A post-doc position funded by the associated funding is available, please contact me if you are interested! 😉