Robert Wilkinson
Immunology
Francis Crick Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Before joining the Crick, Robert J Wilkinson was a Medical Research Council (MRC) Programme Leader in the Division of Mycobacterial Research at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research in London and a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Clinical Science at Imperial College London. Both posts are seconded to the University of Cape Town where Wilkinson also directs that university's Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative. Wilkinson trained in medicine in Cambridge and Oxford universities and at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London. He undertook postdoctoral research at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH and at Imperial College before moving to Cape Town in 2004. Wilkinson has co-authored around 205 articles and reviews on Infectious Diseases with emphasis on tuberculosis.
Research Interest
His present research interests include clinical and immunological aspects of tuberculosis, particularly in the context of HIV-1 infection.
Publications
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Esmail, H and Wilkinson, RJ (2017) Minimizing tuberculosis risk in patients receiving anti-TNF therapy. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 14, 621-623
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Brilha, S; Sathyamoorthy, T; Stuttaford, LH; Walker, NF; Wilkinson, RJ; Singh, S; Moores, RC; Elkington, PT and Friedland, JS (2017) Early secretory antigenic target-6 drives matrix metalloproteinase-10 gene expression and secretion in tuberculosis. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology 56, 223-232
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Bell, L; Peyper, JM; Garnett, S; Tadokera, R; Wilkinson, R; Meintjes, G and Blackburn, JM (2017) TB-IRIS: Proteomic analysis of in vitro PBMC responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and response modulation by dexamethasone. Experimental and Molecular Pathology 102, 237-246
