Ken Smith

Professor Ken Smith is Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, and Director of the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease. He trained in nephrology (FRACP, FRCP) and clinical immunology (FRCPA) and completed a PhD at the WEHI in Melbourne. His laboratory runs a translational programme in autoimmune disease (particularly inflammatory bowel disease, vasculitis and SLE) and immunodeficiency that has led to the identification of genes and pathways involved in disease pathogenesis, and to the discovery of a novel prognosis-predicting biomarkers.