Uday Kishore
Prof. Uday Kishore is a passionate and translational researcher, an inspiring, engaging, and inclusive teacher, an academic leader with a wide research network internationally and across higher education, charity, pharma, and biotech sectors, and an inventor of biologics for clinical trials. He 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 obtained a BSc from S.P. Jain College, Sasaram, Bihar, India; an MSc from Hindu College, Delhi University; and a 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, USA, Dr. Kishore 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 from NASA (USA), Wellcome Trust (UK), and Alexander Humboldt Foundation (Germany). He is the recipient of the MRC Investigator Prize, European Commission Young Scientist Prize, and Mother Teresa Excellence Award. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology UK (FRSB) and the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath London). Dr. Kishore holds several adjunct, visiting, and honorary professorial positions nationally and internationally. He has authored nearly 300 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 autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus and myasthenia gravis.