Ekaterina Petrova – Postdoc

Ekaterina started her research career at the Institute for Tuberculosis in Moscow, where she studied the role of MHC II in susceptibility to Mycobacterium avium infection in mice. For her PhD, she moved to the Institute of Experimental Immunology in Zurich, where she developed new transgenic mouse strains for macrophage research and studied various macrophage populations in steady state and disease models. She then joined Clare Lloyd’s group at Imperial as a Research Associate and studies neuroimmune interactions in asthma.

e.petrova@imperial.ac.uk 

Primary supervisor: Clare Lloyd