Special Seminar – Dr Richard Beatson

As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Dr Richard Beatson from King’s College London to present at the BCI on Thursday 7^th November. For more information about Richard Beaton’s work please see below.

The seminar is entitled: “Sialic acids as innate immune activators; balancing self and non-self to repair or react”

The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12.30pm – 13.30pm.

Richard is a Research Fellow at King’s College London. Trained in medicine (Glasgow), immunology (UCL) and glycobiology (KCL) Richard has been studying the cross-talk between cancer-associated O-linked glycans and host immune cells for over 10 years. He is currently investigating the ability of MUC1 carrying sialylated O-linked glycans to drive monocytes to differentiate into ‘wound healing’ macrophages, and assessing the prevalence of these processes in breast cancers. Richard has additional interests in gamma delta T cells (for adoptive cancer therapy), chronic inflammatory disease (inflammatory arthritis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) and plant derived immunological tools.