Calliope A. Dendrou is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Principal Investigator in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford. She obtained her PhD in 2010 from the University of Cambridge, UK and she has also trained at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, UK. Her work focuses on leveraging genetic data across immune-mediated diseases, to identify shared and distinct pathophysiological mechanisms for improved therapeutic targeting.