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The Crick magazine, spring 2026

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Principal Group Leader Anne O' Garra leads the Immunoregulation lab at the Crick.

Anne O'Garra obtained her PhD in microbiology and undertook a Postdoctoral Fellowship in immunology at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR: now part of the Crick).

As an independent group leader at the DNAX Research Institute, California, USA (1987-2001), she defined functions and mechanisms for cytokines in the immune response, for which she was named 2nd of Highly Cited Authors in Immunology, 1992-2002 (ISI Science Indicators).

Anne returned to the UK in 2001 to form the Division of Immunoregulation at NIMR, to interface research in immunology and infectious diseases, and is one of the founding group leaders who moved to the Crick. Her lab studies the regulation of the immune response during immune challenge and infection, to identify immune cells, pathways and targets of protection and pathogenesis determining disease outcome.

Anne is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society, and is also an EMBO member.

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