Pattern Recognition Receptor signalling in infection and sterile inflammation

Friday, 29 May 2026, 1pm to 2pm

Clare Bryant is Professor of Innate Immunity at the Departments of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine in the University of Cambridge. She studies innate immune cell signalling in response to Pathogen Associated Molecular Pattern Receptor (PRR) activation during bacterial infection using cutting edge multi-disciplinary approaches (collaborating with mathematicians, physicists, physical chemists and structural biologists) to answer fundamental questions about host-pathogen interactions and how to modify them therapeutically. She also applies these innovative approaches to study PRR-induced inflammatory signalling in chronic diseases of humans and animals. In particularly her work using super resolution and single molecule fluorescent imaging approaches to study Toll-like receptor and NOD-like receptor signalling within cells have revealed novel mechanisms in how these receptors signal. She has been on secondments in Genentech and GSK, has extensive collaborations with many pharmaceutical companies, is on the scientific advisory board of several biotech companies, has a drug discovery project with Apollo Therapeutics and helped found the natural product company Polypharmakos. During the COVID-19 pandemic she founded, and still runs, the Inflammazoom international on line seminar series. She was elected as a Fellow of the British Pharmacology Society (2018), Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (2023), The Learned Society of Wales (2023) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (2025).

Speaker(s): Prof Clare Bryant (University of Cambridge)

Series: Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre - Lecture Theatre - Lecture Theatre Medical Sciences Teaching Centre off South Parks Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3PL United Kingdom

Department: Pathology Dunn School (Department)

Organiser: Melissa Wright

Host: Prof Chris Tang

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