Iain Gallagher
Location: Ashworth Labs Rm 309
Telephone: 0131 651 3630
Email: i.j.gallagher@sms.ed.ac.uk
Website: http://zeldia.cap.ed.ac.uk/allenlab/people/gallagher.htm
Research Interests
PhD Title: Regulation and Function of Alternatively Activated Macrophages.
I am specifically interested in the roles of Ym1 and Fizz1, proteins upregulated by alternatively activated macrophages, in the response to helminth infection and in wound healing. (PhD completed 2006)
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Jobs
- Staff Nurse: Various Edinburgh Hospitals 1992 – 2002. Acute Medical Admissions Unit and Haematology
Degrees
- BSc (Hons) First Class in Biological Sciences, Napier College, Edinburgh, (1996-2001)
Publications
- Nair MG, Gallagher IJ, Taylor MD, Loke P, Coulson PS, Wilson RA, Maizels RM, Allen JE. (2005)
- Chitinase and Fizz family members are a generalized feature of nematode infection with selective upregulation of Ym1 and Fizz1 by antigen-presenting cells. Infect Immun. 2005 Jan;73(1):385-94.