Uday Kishore

Prof. Uday Kishore is a teacher and a scientist with a special interest in innate immunity. He was the Founder-Director of the Centre for Infection, Immunity and Disease Mechanisms, Brunel University London. He studied BSc from S.P. Jain College, Sasaram, Bihar, India; MSc from Hindu College, Delhi University; and Ph.D. from the Department of Zoology, University of Delhi and CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India. After spending a year at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, he moved to the University of Oxford for the major part of his post-doctoral training, first at the MRC Immunochemistry Unit, Department of Biochemistry, and then at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital. He is the recipient of fellowships of NASA (USA), Wellcome Trust (UK) and Alexander Humboldt Foundation (Germany), MRC Investigator Prize, European Commission Young Scientist Prize, and Mother Teresa Excellence Award. Uday Kishore holds several adjuncts, visiting, and honorary professorial positions nationally and internationally. He has altogether authored over 250 research papers, book chapters, patents, and books. His research focuses on how innate immunity plays a crucial role in human health and disease. He has extensive experience researching in the field of autoimmune diseases such as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Myasthenia gravis.