Kathryn Wood, PhD

(from University of Oxford website):

Kathryn Wood is Professor of Immunology in the Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford where she runs a research group of over 20 researchers, she also holds a Royal Society – Wolfson Research Merit Award for research excellence.  Her research focuses on transplantation, particularly the immune response that leads to rejection and immune regulation as a strategy to achieve immunological tolerance, areas in which she has made major contributions.

Professor Wood was an undergraduate in Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham and she received a D.Phil from the University of Oxford in 1981 for her work on the complement system.  She was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2002 and Professor Wood’s professional activities include a broad array of responsibilities both nationally and internationally, and have recently included: NIH Expert Panel on Transplantation Research; Better Biomarkers in Transplantation Advisory Board, University of British Columbia/Genome Canada and the INSERM Review Board.

Professor Wood is a former President of The Transplantation Society and has served as a Councillor for The British Transplantation Society, The British Society for Immunology, and European Society of Organ Transplantation.  Currently she is the Immediate Past President of The Transplantation Society (International), an editor of “Transplantation” and is a former Trustee of Kidney Research UK.