Brigitta Stockinger, FMedSci, FRS, is a molecular immunologist in the Francis Crick Institute in London.
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Brigitta Stockinger focuses on a particular type of immune cell that helps to control immune responses to viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, called a CD4 T cell.
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Brigitta Stockinger's research has provided insights into a particular type of CD4 T cell, called a Th17 cell, looking at why some of these cells become inflammatory and cause damage in the body.
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Brigitta Stockinger's lab identified a particular receptor, the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, which connects environmental stimuli and the immune system.
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Brigitta Stockinger was educated at the University of Mainz, where she was awarded a PhD in Biology.
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Brigitta Stockinger then did postdoctoral studies in London, Cambridge and at the Cancer Research Institute in Heidelberg.
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Brigitta Stockinger was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.
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Brigitta Stockinger has contributed insights regulation and maintenance of peripheral T cell immune responses.
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Brigitta Stockinger was the first to define mechanisms underlying the differentiation of Th17 cells and demonstrated substantial pasticity in TH17 cell function depending on the inflammatory environment.
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Brigitta Stockinger identified the Aryl hydrocarbon receptor as connector between the immune system and environmental stimuli, showing that it shapes the functional differentiation of Th17 effector cells.
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Brigitta Stockinger is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.