Emily Jane Swindle

She gained her PhD in Immunopharmacology from the University of Liverpool in 2003 under the supervision of Dr John Coleman studying the mechanisms of IgE-mediated mast cell (MC) activation. She then moved to the USA to undertake a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the supervision of Dr Dean Metcalfe (MCBS, NIAID) to expand her studies of MC activation in allergic asthma and investigate MC responses to innate stimuli. On returning to the UK, she continued her interest in respiratory diseases undertaking research with Prof Donna Davies and Prof Hywel Morgan (IfLS) on an interdisciplinary project monitoring the epithelial barrier by electrical impedance spectroscopy using a novel microphysiological system (MPS). In 2010, Emily was awarded a career track fellowship by the Faculty of Medicine to investigate the interaction of MCs with bronchial epithelial cells (BECs) in viral-induced exacerbations of asthma. In 2013, she was appointed a Lecturer in Pharmacology and in 2018 an Associate Professor in Pharmacology. Her research focuses on building complex in vitro models of the airway incorporating structural cells (epithelial cells) and immune cells (mast cells) to understand their contribution to viral-induced exacerbations of asthma. She is a mast cell and epithelial cell biologist by training and has worked in the interdisciplinary lung-on-chip field for over 10 years working closely with physical scientists who have developed the technology.

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