Study of the host immune-metabolic-intestinal microbiota interface using a humanised model of obesity
Year of award: 2011
Grantholders
Dr Philip Ahern
University of Oxford
Project summary
Philip will begin his Fellowship in the laboratory of Professor Jeffrey Gordon at Washington University in St Louis, investigating how the coordinated activity of the intestinal microbiota and host diet impact the immune system using gnotobiotic mice. This work will be undertaken in collaboration with Dr Kevin Maloy and Professor Fiona Powrie at the University of Oxford.