Professor Dr. Irina Udalova

Biography

Irina Udalova is a Professor of Molecular Immunology at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford. She began her research career in Oxford in 1995 after completing a joint BSc/MSc degree in Physics and Mathematics and a PhD in Molecular Biology from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 2004, she joined the Kennedy Institute as a Principal Investigator and established her research group, 'Genomics Inflammation', which focuses on the global roles of key regulatory factors in setting inflammation. Her laboratory unravels the transcriptional circuitry that controls myeloid cell phenotypes in inflammation using state-of-the-art functional genomic approaches combined with classical molecular and cellular immunology techniques. Her work has led to significant discoveries, including the identification of IRF5 as a molecular switch in inflammatory macrophages and its impact on acute and chronic inflammation, as well as the discovery of type III interferons and their anti-inflammatory properties in regulating neutrophil migration.

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