Omer Dushek, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular Immunology at University of Oxford

Speaker

Omer Dushek is Professor of Molecular Immunology and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. After initial training in physics (BSc) and mathematics (PhD) in Canada, he moved to the UK on a Royal Society Newton Fellowship to train in experimental methods. His work is focused on understanding and exploiting the molecular process of T cell receptor and antibody interactions with antigens using a combination of quantitative experiments and mathematical modelling.