Dr. Nesrina Imami

Biography

Nesrina Imami is a Reader in Immunology and an Honorary Consultant Physician at Imperial College London. She holds a Fellowship from the Royal College of Pathologists and has a background in medicine and microbiology immunology. Dr. Imami has specialized in viral immunology, with a particular focus on HIV-1 and cell-mediated immunity in relation to immunotherapeutic development. She has published extensively on T cell responses to viral infections and was awarded a PhD from the University of London in 1992. Following her doctorate, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Wellcome Trust, during which she embarked on a long-term research program assessing HIV-1-specific T-cell immune responses. Her research also explores the mechanisms of non-responsiveness or anergy, and evaluates the effects of drugs, cytokines, immunomodulators, and vaccines on immune responses. Through her work, she has established a research group that focuses on the immunopathogenesis of HIV-1 infection and the immune reconstitution in HIV disease. Dr. Imami's contributions to the field include leading a series of novel clinical trials in immunotherapy, and she has been recognized with the prestigious Medical Research Council Experimental Medicine Award. She has successfully supervised over seventy research students and fellows, including twenty PhD students. Dr. Imami has been appointed as the Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) and received the title of Emeritus from Imperial in October 2024.

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