Professor Dr. Andrew Macdonald

Biography

Andrew MacDonald completed his PhD studying the immunity related to parasitic worms at the University of Edinburgh in 1998. He has held positions at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania before returning to the UK in 2002 to establish his lab at the University of Edinburgh. In January 2013, he became a Professor of Immunology at the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research. His research primarily investigates the interaction of pathogens with the innate immune system, how this influences the development of adaptive immunity, and its role in inflammation, especially regarding Type 2 inflammation related to allergies and infections caused by helminths, particularly Schistosoma mansoni. His lab employs both in vivo and in vitro model systems to understand the immune mechanisms involved in helminth infection and their implications for allergic airway inflammation. He has also begun to explore how to enhance the activation function of innate immune cells for developing innovative therapies for Type 2 inflammatory diseases and cancer.

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