Helen McGettrick

Helen McGettrick is a Reader in Inflammation and Vascular Biology at the Institute of
Inflammation and Ageing in University of Birmingham, UK. She has a BSc in
Biochemistry from the University of Lancaster, and a MSc in Immunology and PhD in
Medical Sciences from the University of Birmingham, UK. In 2016 she was awarded
the prestigious “Garrod Prize” by the British Society for Rheumatology for her
contribution to the field of Rheumatology.  She was elected as the England
Representative for the British Society of Immunology (BSI) Members Forum 2018-
2022 and is continues to be involved in the BSI as a part of Annual Congress
Organising Committee.

Her research team focuses on understanding the factors that control an inflammatory
response in health and how these change with age and in diseases, such as obesity,
rheumatoid arthritis, cancer. The team specialises in examining what controls
immune cell movement from the blood into tissue, immune cell personality and
function once an inflamed tissue, and the personality and function of cells that
permanently live within your tissues. The aim is to use this knowledge to generate
new medicines that can reverse bad inflammatory responses by mimicking what
should happen during good/protective immune responses.