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The Crick magazine, spring 2026

Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID)

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Menna Clatworthy FMedSci, Director of the Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID), leads a research group focused on humoral and tissue immunity across organs. She also works as a Consultant Nephrologist, caring for patients with kidney transplants.

The Clatworthy Cambridge Tissue Immunity lab uses human organs and model systems, applying single cell genomic and advanced imaging technologies to investigate tissue Immunity across different organs. It is interested in how tissue environments influence resident immune cells, how these interactions change in disease and with age, and how tissue immunity is linked across organs. The ultimate aim is to find new and better ways of diagnosing, monitoring and treating human diseases.

Menna Clatworthy read Medicine at Cardiff and completed her professional training in kidney medicine at Cambridge. She undertook a PhD at the University of Cambridge, investigating how antibodies contribute to immune responses in autoimmunity and infection. Menna subsequently completed a post-doctoral Wellcome Trust Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Washington DC, USA.

Menna has published more than 160 papers, and the quality of her scientific work is recognised by her nomination to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences and EMBO.

She is also a Fellow and Director of Studies at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, where she supervises students and is an enthusiastic supporter and mentor of the next generation of biomedical researchers.

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