Rebecca A. Drummond

2025-10-17 03:08:52

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

Professor, Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham

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Rebecca Drummond is a fungal immunologist researching mechanisms of immunity that protect us from fungal pathogens, such as Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans. Her lab is particularly interested in how organ-specific immune responses develop by studying the behaviour of tissue-resident myeloid cells during infection and the microbial response to the environment within host tissues.

She currently receives funding from the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust and the Lister Institute for Preventative Medicine.

Experience

–present Chair professor, University of Birmingham
2014–2018 Associate research scientist, National Institutes of Health

Education

2014 University of Aberdeen, PhD

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