Professor Michael Dustin elected to the Royal Society
The Kennedy Institute’s Professor Michael Dustin has been awarded a prestigious Fellowship from the Royal Society in recognition of his outstanding contribution to immunology research. The Kennedy Trust extends its many congratulations to Professor Dustin on this well-deserved appointment. Read...
The Kennedy Institute launches its single cell facility
The Kennedy Institute opened its in-house single cell and spatial facility in 2021 with funding from the Kennedy Trust. Led by Professor Irina Udalova and Associate Professor Stephen Sansom (pictured above), the new facility will enhance research both at the...
Professor Michael Dustin awarded Kennedy Trust Chair in Molecular Immunology
Professor Michael Dustin has been awarded the Trust’s first Statutory Chair position as the Kennedy Trust Chair in Molecular Immunology at the Kennedy Institute, Oxford. Professor Dustin joined the Kennedy Institute in 2013 as Head of Immunology with a Principal...
Kennedy Institute TSRB review 2022
The Kennedy Trust has carried out its four-yearly review of the Kennedy Institute over a two-day site visit on 14-15th November. The Trust Scientific Review Board (TSRB) was made up of an eminent panel of international scientists including Professors Tim...
Mathematician boosts data science research at the Kennedy Institute
The Kennedy Trust is thrilled to support Dr Yang Luo, who joins the Kennedy Institute from Harvard Medical School as a KTRR Senior Research Fellow in Data Science and the Principal Investigator of the Luo Group. Dr Luo’s lab is...
Professor Fiona Powrie recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Professor Fiona Powrie, Director of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, has been appointed Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Medical Science. The Kennedy Trust extends its sincere...
Defining the role of resident memory B cells in the fight against influenza
Kennedy Trust Senior Research Fellow Associate Professor Tal Arnon and colleagues at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology have published an article in Immunity defining the mechanisms that enable resident memory B (BRM) cells to rapidly deliver antibodies at sites infected...
New Oxford-Zeiss Centre of Excellence opens at the University of Oxford
The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (KIR) and the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine (IDRM) have launched a new Biomedical Imaging centre with support from the Kennedy Trust. The first centre of its kind in the UK and Europe will...
Fiona Powrie honoured by British Society for Immunology
Professor Fiona Powrie, Director of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, has been recognised for her outstanding contributions to immunology with an Honorary Lifetime Membership of the British Society for Immunology. Read more here....
The Kennedy Institute scoops sustainability award
The Kennedy Institute roof extension, co-funded by the Kennedy Trust, has been awarded the 2021 Green Award for Sustainability by the Oxford Preservation Trust, alongside a Certificate in the New Building category. Read more here....