Professor Aymen Al-Shamkhani BSc, PhD
Professor in Immunology
Professor Aymen Al-Shamkhani is Professor in Immunology within Medicine at the University of Southampton.
Professor Al-Shamkhani was appointed to a personal Chair in 2007 after joining the University of Southampton in 1998 as Lecture and then Reader in Immunology. He obtained his BSc (Biochemistry) and PhD from Keele University. He then took up postdoctoral work in molecular and cellular immunology in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology and the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford.
Professor Al-Shamkhani’s current research is focussed on providing a better understanding of the signals and molecules that regulate T cell activation and responses. His work on the costimulatory receptor CD27 led to the clinical development of anti-CD27 monoclonal antibodies as potential agents for promoting anti-tumour immunity. He has received external grant funding form a number of organisations including Cancer Research UK, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, The Wellcome Trust as well as the pharmaceutical industry.
Qualifications
BSc, Biochemistry, Keele University 1989
PhD, Keele University, 1993
Appointments held
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MRC Cellular Immunology Unit, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, 1993
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MRC Immunochemistry Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, 1996
Lecturer in Immunology, The School of Medicine, University of Southampton, 1998
Reader in Immunology, The School of Medicine, University of Southampton, 2004
Professor in Immunology, The School of Medicine, University of Southampton, 2007