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Best Female Scientists

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Immunology

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111
Citations
68698
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463
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40

Medicine

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111
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5237
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Fiona Powrie is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Immunology and Molecular Biology as notable subfields.

Their work covers critical topics such as immune cell function and interaction, inflammatory bowel disease, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, T-cell and B-cell immunology, gut microbiota and health, as well as immunodeficiency and autoimmune disorders.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Fiona Powrie include Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas E. Ilott, Claire Pearson, Holm H. Uhlig, and Mathilde Pohin.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, regularly contributing to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Nature Immunology, Immunology, and Nature.

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Host-microbiota maladaptation in colorectal cancer, 2020, Nature
  • IL-1-driven stromal-neutrophil interactions define a subset of patients with inflammatory bowel disease that does not respond to therapies, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Cross-tissue, single-cell stromal atlas identifies shared pathological fibroblast phenotypes in four chronic inflammatory diseases, 2022, Med
  • A dynamic CD2-rich compartment at the outer edge of the immunological synapse boosts and integrates signals, 2020, Nature Immunology
  • Deconvolution of monocyte responses in inflammatory bowel disease reveals an IL-1 cytokine network that regulates IL-23 in genetic and acquired IL-10 resistance, 2020, Gut

Fiona Powrie has received multiple professional recognitions, including being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 and a Member of Academia Europaea in 2016. Additionally, they were elected Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2011, and hold fellowships in The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom, and membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • A functionally specialized population of mucosal CD103+ DCs induces Foxp3+ regulatory T cells via a TGF-β– and retinoic acid–dependent mechanism

    Janine L. Coombes;Karima R.R. Siddiqui;Carolina V. Arancibia-Cárcamo;Jason Hall

  • Cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 plays an essential role in the function of CD25(+)CD4(+) regulatory cells that control intestinal inflammation.

    Simon Read;Vivianne Malmström;Fiona Powrie

  • Innate lymphoid cells--a proposal for uniform nomenclature.

    Hergen Spits;David Artis;Marco Colonna;Andreas Diefenbach

  • Intestinal homeostasis and its breakdown in inflammatory bowel disease

    Kevin J. Maloy;Fiona Powrie;Fiona Powrie

  • An Essential Role for Interleukin 10 in the Function of Regulatory T Cells That Inhibit Intestinal Inflammation

    Chrystelle Asseman;Smita Mauze;Michael W. Leach;Robert L. Coffman

  • Innate Lymphoid Cells: 10 Years On.

    Eric Vivier;David Artis;Marco Colonna;Andreas Diefenbach

  • Regulatory T cells in the control of immune pathology.

    Kevin J. Maloy;Fiona Powrie

  • Inhibition of Th1 responses prevents inflammatory bowel disease in scid mice reconstituted with CD45RBhi CD4+ T cells.

    Fiona Powrie;Michael W. Leach;Smita Mauze;Satish Menon

  • Phenotypically distinct subsets of CD4+ T cells induce or protect from chronic intestinal inflammation in C. B-17 scid mice

    F Powrie;M W Leach;S Mauze;L B Caddle

  • A critical role for transforming growth factor-beta but not interleukin 4 in the suppression of T helper type 1-mediated colitis by CD45RB(low) CD4+ T cells.

    F Powrie;J Carlino;M W Leach;S Mauze

  • Innate lymphoid cells drive interleukin-23-dependent innate intestinal pathology

    Sofia Buonocore;Philip P. Ahern;Holm H. Uhlig;Ivaylo I. Ivanov

  • Cutting edge: cure of colitis by CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells.

    Christian Mottet;Holm H. Uhlig;Fiona Powrie

  • Interleukin-23 drives innate and T cell–mediated intestinal inflammation

    Sophie Hue;Philip P Ahern;Sofia Buonocore;Marika C. Kullberg

  • The alarmin IL-33 promotes regulatory T-cell function in the intestine

    Chris Schiering;Thomas Krausgruber;Agnieszka Chomka;Anja Fröhlich

  • CD4+CD25+ T(R) cells suppress innate immune pathology through cytokine-dependent mechanisms.

    Kevin J. Maloy;Laurence Salaun;Rachel Cahill;Gordon Dougan

  • IL-10 Is Required for Regulatory T Cells to Mediate Tolerance to Alloantigens In Vivo

    Masaki Hara;Cherry I. Kingsley;Masanori Niimi;Simon Read

  • Dendritic cells in intestinal immune regulation

    Janine L. Coombes;Fiona Powrie

  • The Short Chain Fatty Acid Butyrate Imprints an Antimicrobial Program in Macrophages.

    Julie Schulthess;Julie Schulthess;Sumeet Pandey;Melania Capitani;Kevin C. Rue-Albrecht

  • Analysis of FOXP3 protein expression in human CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells at the single-cell level.

    Giovanna Roncador;Philip J. Brown;Lorena Maestre;Sophie Hue

  • Diverse targets of the transcription factor STAT3 contribute to T cell pathogenicity and homeostasis.

    Lydia Durant;Wendy T. Watford;Haydeé L. Ramos;Arian Laurence

  • Differential Activity of IL-12 and IL-23 in Mucosal and Systemic Innate Immune Pathology

    Holm H. Uhlig;Brent S. McKenzie;Sophie Hue;Claire Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Holm H. Uhlig
Holm H. Uhlig University of Oxford
Kevin J. Maloy
Kevin J. Maloy University of Oxford
Gordon Dougan
Gordon Dougan University of Cambridge
Paul Klenerman
Paul Klenerman University of Oxford
Simon Travis
Simon Travis University of Oxford
Robert L. Coffman
Robert L. Coffman University of California, Santa Cruz
Paul Bowness
Paul Bowness University of Oxford
Sarah A. Teichmann
Sarah A. Teichmann University of Cambridge
Christopher D. Buckley
Christopher D. Buckley University of Oxford
Daniel J. Cua
Daniel J. Cua Johnson & Johnson (United States)

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