DrNesrina Imami
Emeritus Reader in Immunology
Department of Infectious Disease - Faculty of Medicine
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- Emeritus Reader in ImmunologyDepartment of Infectious Disease - Faculty of Medicine
- 020 3315 5987 (Work)
- I.2.8, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Dr Nesrina Imami, Reader in Immunology, Honorary Consultant Physician, and Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, qualified in medicine, microbiology and immunology. She further specialised in viral immunology, in particular HIV-1, and focused on cell mediated immunity and immunotherapeutic development.
She has published primarily on the immunology of T cells and their responses to viral infection, was awarded a University of London PhD in 1992 and after a subsequent period of postdoctoral work was awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship. She embarked on a long-term detailed programme of research to assess HIV-1-specific T-cell immune responses, mechanisms of non-responsiveness/anergy and to evaluate the effects of drugs, cytokines and other immunomodulators such as vaccines on these responses. The Wellcome Trust Fellowship enabled her to establish her research group at the forefront of international research into the immunopathogenesis of HIV-1 infection and immune reconstitution in HIV-1 disease, and to continue her work in an area that integrates basic biological science with clinical science, with direct application to human health. She has completed and set up novel immunotherapy and drug clinical trials for which she has been awarded the prestigious MRC Experimental Medicine Award.
She has successfully supervised more than seventy research students and fellows including over twenty PhD students and has been, from 2012 to 2024, Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research). The title Emeritus was conferred on her by Imperial on October 1, 2024.
She has published primarily on the immunology of T cells and their responses to viral infection, was awarded a University of London PhD in 1992 and after a subsequent period of postdoctoral work was awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship. She embarked on a long-term detailed programme of research to assess HIV-1-specific T-cell immune responses, mechanisms of non-responsiveness/anergy and to evaluate the effects of drugs, cytokines and other immunomodulators such as vaccines on these responses. The Wellcome Trust Fellowship enabled her to establish her research group at the forefront of international research into the immunopathogenesis of HIV-1 infection and immune reconstitution in HIV-1 disease, and to continue her work in an area that integrates basic biological science with clinical science, with direct application to human health. She has completed and set up novel immunotherapy and drug clinical trials for which she has been awarded the prestigious MRC Experimental Medicine Award.
She has successfully supervised more than seventy research students and fellows including over twenty PhD students and has been, from 2012 to 2024, Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research). The title Emeritus was conferred on her by Imperial on October 1, 2024.
FACULTY
- Faculty of Medicine
POSITION NAME
- Emeritus Reader in Immunology