Clare Margaret Lloyd is a Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean for Institutional Affairs at Imperial College London.
20 Facts About Clare Lloyd
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Clare Lloyd earned her Bachelor's degree in 1987 and her PhD in 1991.
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Clare Lloyd was awarded a National Kidney Research Fund Fellowship and joined the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals.
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Clare Lloyd joined Harvard University to work on chronic inflammatory glomerulonephritis.
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Clare Lloyd became interested in the mechanisms of cell recruitment.
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Clare Lloyd was involved with early studies that looking at the cloning, expression and function of chemokine.
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Clare Lloyd's group demonstrated that T helper cells were the initial responders to CCR3 and CCR4 pathways, but the increase in CCR4 positive cells results in the long-term representation of T helper cells in vivo.
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Clare Lloyd returned to the UK in 1999, joining Imperial College London as a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow.
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Clare Lloyd continued her interest in allergens, looking at the roles for cells and molecules involved in pulmonary inflammation.
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Clare Lloyd is part of the Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma.
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Clare Lloyd is a member of the British Society for Immunology and Wellcome Trust Infection, Immunity and Immunophenotyping.
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Clare Lloyd has studied why pollen and dust can trigger reactions in some people but not others.
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Clare Lloyd became interested in why exposure to allergens and infections in early life had such an influence on programming pathways to maintain pulmonary homeostasis.
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Clare Lloyd demonstrated that Interleukin 9 can mediate inflammation of asthma.
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Clare Lloyd was appointed Professor in Respiratory Immunology in 2006.
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Clare Lloyd was awarded the Imperial College London Rectors Medal for her Research Supervision in 2014.
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Clare Lloyd was the lead National Heart and Lung Institute Athena Swan lead between 2009 and 2014, achieving the first Silver award for a medical department in the UK.
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Clare Lloyd pushed for the improvement of the Imperial College London mentoring scheme, in an effort to support early career researchers.
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Clare Lloyd serves on the scientific advisory board of Science Magazine and is an editor of Nature Mucosal Immunology and the European Journal of Immunology.
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Clare Lloyd serves on the Royal Society Newton International Fellowships board.