Fiona powrie biography

Sidney Truelove Professor of Gastroenterology

Dame Fiona Margaret PowrieDBE FRS FMedSci (born 1963) is currently the head of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford.^[2] Formerly she was the inaugural Sidney Truelove Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Oxford.

She is also head of the Experimental Medicine Division of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine.^[3]

Career

Powrie studied biochemistry at the University of Bath,^[4] before completing a DPhil degree in Don Mason's lab at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, the University of Oxford.^[5]

Notable work

Regulatory T cells

Powrie worked with Don Mason at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology studying the interactions of different subsets of CD4+ T cells in rats.

This work identified that CD4+OX22hi (OX22 is CD45RC in rats and the equivalent of CD45RB in mice, both isoforms of CD45^[6]) T cells