Clare Lloyd is Professor of Respiratory Immunology, Interim Head National Heart and Lung Institute and Vice Dean for Institutional Affairs in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London. Clare completed both her BSc and PhD degrees in Immunology at King's College London. She was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship from the National Kidney Research Fund at the United Medical and Dental Schools at Guy's Hospital to study the immune response associated with mouse models of glomerulonephritis.
Thereafter she moved to the US to take up a Postdoctoral position jointly with Dr Jose-Carlos Gutierrez Ramos at Harvard University and Professor David Salant at Boston University Medical Center, developing a mouse model of chronic inflammatory glomerulonephritis. She moved to Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, USA where her role was to develop models and systems to functionally characterise novel genes of unknown function.
Professor Lloyd moved back to the UK to establish a research group at Imperial College after being awarded a Wellcome Senior Fellow in Basic Biomedical Sciences. Her group has developed models of chronic allergic inflammation and outlined roles for cells and molecules involved in the development and regulation of pulmonary inflammation, airway hyperreactivity and airway remodelling. Her Fellowship was successfully renewed four times, and is now a Wellcome Investigator.
