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Prof Louise Boyle

Friend of St Edmund's

Prof Louise Boyle

Friend of St Edmund's
Professor of Molecular Immunology & Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Department of Pathology

Louise Boyle became the Professor of Molecular Immunology in the Department of Pathology in October 2021. She obtained a BSc Hons in Biological Sciences from the University of Edinburgh in 1998, followed by a PhD in Immunology from the University of Cambridge, where she studied T cell responses in patients with arthritis in Professor Hill Gaston’s laboratory.   In 2002, she joined Professor John Trowsdale’s group as a Postdoctoral Research Associate to continue her work on major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules.   There, she discovered TAPBPR was a novel component of the MHC class I antigen processing and presentation pathway. In 2009, Louise was awarded a Wellcome Career Development Fellowship, followed by a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship to explore the molecular pathways controlling antigen presentation to the immune system.  She was appointed as a University Lecturer in 2017 and promoted to a University Reader in 2019. In 2020, her Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship was successfully renewed. Her laboratory is currently focused on understanding the role of TAPBPR in peptide selection for immune recognition and how this contributes to human health and disease.  Louise’s research programme offers important translational opportunities in infection control, autoimmune disease, cancer immunotherapy and vaccine development.

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Prof Lucy Davison

Director of Studies

Prof Lucy Davison

Director of Studies

Lucy is Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine (Clinical)

Professor Michael D Driessen

VHI Affiliate Member

Professor Michael D Driessen

VHI Affiliate Member

My research focuses on relationship between religion and democracy in the Mediterranean region; interreligious dialogue; global Catholicism and Islam; and religious conceptions of humanism.

Michael Driessen is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and the inaugural Director of the MA program in International Affairs at John Cabot University.

Michael received his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and has been a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar as well as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He has taught at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna and holds a research affiliation with Cambridge University’s Von Hügel Institute. He also serves as an advisor for the Adyan Foundation in Lebanon.

Professor Driessen also directs the Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics, an annual writing workshop and policy dialogue supported by a consortium of institutions and scholars working at the crossroads of religion and international relations and held under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is also a longtime member of the communities of L’Arche and am working on the Disability and Knowledge research project co-sponsored by the Von Hügel Institute.

Driessen’s books include The Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2023), Human Fraternity and Inclusive Citizenship: Interreligious Engagement in the Mediterranean (ISPI, 2021; co-edited with Fabio Petito and Fadi Daou), and Religion and Democratization (Oxford University Press, 2014). He has published scholarly articles in Comparative Politics, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Religion, Constellations and Democratization and essays in America Magazine and Commonweal.

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