Clare Lloyd

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Clare Lloyd
FRSB
Born
Clare Margaret Lloyd
Alma mater King's College London (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields Inflammation [1]
Institutions Imperial College London
Harvard University
Millennium Pharmaceuticals
Thesis Mechanisms of nephritis during murine malarial infections  (1991)
Website imperial.ac.uk/people/c.lloyd

Clare Margaret Lloyd FRSB FMedSci is a Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean for Institutional Affairs at Imperial College London. She investigates allergic immunity in early life. [1]

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Early life and education

Lloyd earned her BSc and PhD in immunology at King's College London. [2] She earned her Bachelor's degree in 1987 and her PhD in 1991. [3] She was awarded a National Kidney Research Fund Fellowship and joined the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. [2] Her work considered mouse models of glomerulonephritis. She joined Harvard University to work on chronic inflammatory glomerulonephritis. [2] She became interested in the mechanisms of cell recruitment. She was involved with early studies that looking at the cloning, expression and function of chemokine. [4] Her group demonstrated that T helper cells were the initial responders to CCR3 and CCR4 pathways, but the increase in CCR4 positive cells results in the long-term representation of T helper cells in vivo. [5] LLoyd studied the role of these chemokines in allergic lung inflammation. [6] She looked to better characterise the spatial patterns of chemokine expression to inform therapeutic strategies that limit the side-effects of allergen exposure. [6]

Career and research

After her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, Lloyd joined at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in 1996 to work on models to characterise novel genes. [2] She returned to the UK in 1999, joining Imperial College London as a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow. [2] She continued her interest in allergens, looking at the roles for cells and molecules involved in pulmonary inflammation. [2] She is part of the Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma. [7] She is a member of the British Society for Immunology and Wellcome Trust Infection, Immunity and Immunophenotyping. [8] Lloyd studies the lung cells of children who suffer from asthma and severe wheeze. [9] She has studied why pollen and dust can trigger reactions in some people but not others. [10] She became interested in why exposure to allergens and infections in early life had such an influence on programming pathways to maintain pulmonary homeostasis. [11] [12] She demonstrated that Interleukin 9 can mediate inflammation of asthma. [13]

She was appointed Professor in Respiratory Immunology in 2006. [2] She is co-lead of the respiratory division. [14] Her research group, the Lloyd Lab, look at the interactions between lung cells and infiltrating inflammatory cells. [15] Lloyd was awarded the Imperial College London Rectors Medal for her Research Supervision in 2014. [16] In 2018, she demonstrated that the ICOS/ICOS‐L pathway could be a therapeutic target in asthma. [17]

Academic service

She was the lead National Heart and Lung Institute Athena Swan lead between 2009 and 2014, achieving the first Silver award for a medical department in the UK. [18] She pushed for the improvement of the Imperial College London mentoring scheme, in an effort to support early career researchers. [18] In 2016 she was appointed Dean of Institutional Affairs at Imperial College London. [18] She serves on the scientific advisory board of Science Magazine and is an editor of Nature Mucosal Immunology and the European Journal of Immunology. [19] [20] [21] She serves on the Royal Society Newton International Fellowships board. [22]

Awards and honours

References

  1. 1 2 Clare Lloyd publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Professor Clare Lloyd". imperial.ac.uk. Imperial College London. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  3. ↑ ORCID   0000-0001-8977-6726
  4. ↑ Gutierrez-Ramos, Jose-Carlos; Gearing, David; Coyle, Anthony J.; Proudfoot, Amanda E. I.; Powers, Christine A.; Dussault, Barry; Yu, Gary; Jia, Gui-Quan; Lloyd, Clare M. (1999). "Mouse Monocyte-Derived Chemokine Is Involved in Airway Hyperreactivity and Lung Inflammation". The Journal of Immunology. 163 (1): 403–411. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.163.1.403 . ISSN   1550-6606. PMID   10384142.
  5. ↑ Lloyd, Clare M.; Delaney, Tracy; Nguyen, Trang; Tian, Jane; Martinez-A, Carlos; Coyle, Anthony J.; Gutierrez-Ramos, Jose-Carlos (2000). "Cc Chemokine Receptor (Ccr)3/Eotaxin Is Followed by Ccr4/Monocyte-Derived Chemokine in Mediating Pulmonary T Helper Lymphocyte Type 2 Recruitment after Serial Antigen Challenge in Vivo". The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 191 (2): 265–274. doi:10.1084/jem.191.2.265. ISSN   0022-1007. PMC   2195756 . PMID   10637271.
  6. 1 2 Lloyd, Clare (2002). "Chemokines in allergic lung inflammation". Immunology. 105 (2): 144–154. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2567.2002.01344.x. ISSN   0019-2805. PMC   1782646 . PMID   11872089.
  7. ↑ "Prof. Clare Lloyd | Asthma UK Centre". asthma-allergy.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  8. ↑ "Home | 3i Consortium - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute". immunophenotype.org. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  9. ↑ "Wheezing and Asthma: Earlier Diagnosis and Treatment | Action Medical Research | Children's Charity". action.org.uk. 2013-04-10. Archived from the original on 2018-12-17. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  10. ↑ "Lungs". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  11. ↑ Lloyd, Clare M.; Saglani, Sejal (2010). "Asthma and allergy: The emerging epithelium". Nature Medicine . 16 (3): 273–274. doi:10.1038/nm0310-273. PMC   3380503 . PMID   20208514.
  12. ↑ Lloyd, Clare M.; Hawrylowicz, Catherine M. (2009). "Regulatory T Cells in Asthma". Immunity. 31 (3): 438–449. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2009.08.007. ISSN   1074-7613. PMC   3385348 . PMID   19766086.
  13. ↑ Lloyd, Clare M.; Phimister, Elizabeth G.; Harker, James A. (2018). "Epigenetic Control of Interleukin-9 in Asthma" (PDF). New England Journal of Medicine. 379 (1): 87–89. doi:10.1056/NEJMcibr1803610. hdl: 10044/1/61609 . ISSN   0028-4793. PMID   29972761. S2CID   49651778.
  14. ↑ "Structure and key people". Imperial College London. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  15. ↑ "People – LLOYD LAB" . Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  16. ↑ "Honours and Memberships - Professor Clare Lloyd". imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  17. ↑ Uwadiae, Faith I.; Pyle, Chloe J.; Walker, Simone A.; Lloyd, Clare M.; Harker, James A. (2018). "Targeting the ICOS/ICOS-L pathway in a mouse model of established allergic asthma disrupts T follicular helper cell responses and ameliorates disease". Allergy. 74 (4): 650–662. doi:10.1111/all.13602. ISSN   1398-9995. PMC   6492018 . PMID   30220084.
  18. 1 2 3 "Professor Clare Lloyd on being Vice Dean (Institutional Affairs)". FoM Staff Blog. 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  19. ↑ "Advisory Board". Science | AAAS. 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
  20. ↑ "About the Editors | Mucosal Immunology". www.nature.com. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
  21. ↑ "European Journal of Immunology". onlinelibrary.wiley.com. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)1521-4141. hdl:2027.42/37955. S2CID   250212720 . Retrieved 2018-12-18.
  22. ↑ "Clare Lloyd | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
  23. ↑ "Professor Clare Lloyd | The Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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