Professor Fiona Powrie DPhil, FRS, FMedSci is Director of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford. Her research examines the relationship between the intestinal microbiome and the host immune system and how this mutualistic relationship breaks down in inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and cancer. She has received numerous prestigious prizes and awards, including the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2012. She was elected an International Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 and was appointed Deputy Chair of the Wellcome Board of Governors in 2021.
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