Professor Kathryn Else

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Professor Kathryn Else

Kathryn Else is a Professor of Immunology in the Faculty of Life Sciences. Kathryn obtained a first class honours degree in Zoology in 1985 at the University of Nottingham. She was awarded a Post Graduate Certificate in Education in 1986 and completed her PhD, also at the University of Nottingham, in 1989 focussing on aspects of immunity to intestinal nematode parasites. She continued to pursue her interest in parasite immunology at the University of Manchester, first as an MRC post-doctoral training fellow (1989) then a Wellcome Trust Fellow (1992) before becoming a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science in 1995. She became a Senior Lecturer in 2007 and Professor of Immunology in 2009. Kathryn has published extensively in the field of immunity to infection and has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, BBSRC and MRC. Kathryn leads large research group and has successfully supervised through to completion over 20 PhD students.