Forging a quiet trail through the roar of auto aggressive immunity in type 1 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a life-long condition where the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the cells in the body that produce insulin. Insulin insufficiency leads to life-threatening, life-limiting complications and can affect your heart, eyes and kidneys. According to Diabetes UK, over 430, 000 people in the UK live with T1D. In this inaugural lecture, Professor Allison Green invites you to join her research journey through the complexities of the immune response in T1D, as the immune aggressors take on the immune safeguards. Profoundly deaf from the age of 11, Allison is committed to inclusivity in scientific research/education and will discuss how her disability has shaped her research beliefs and practice.
Professor Allison Green is Professor of Immunology at Hull York Medical School. Allison joined the Medical School in 2010 as Wellcome Senior Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science in the Centre for Immunology and Infection (CII). She obtained her BSc(Hons) in Immunology from Glasgow University (UK), a PhD in Virology, Immunology and Vaccination at St. Andrews University (UK) and then moved to Yale School of Medicine (USA) to conduct postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Richard Flavell. Whilst there, she obtained a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship, followed by a JDRF Career Development Award. In 2001, she was recruited to Cambridge University (UK) to set up her own laboratory funded by a Wellcome Trust/JDRF Career Development Award and subsequently a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Science. In 2002, she was the first recipient of the GJ Thorbecke Award from the International Society for Leukocyte Biology in recognition of her work in inflammation and disease.