Immunological Aspects of Gastroenterology

Yashwant Madida is a Professor in Medicine and Consultant Physician/Gastroenterologist at the University of Nottingham and University Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham. He obtained his medical qualification from the University of Liverpool and has worked in London, Oxford, and Boston (USA). His main areas of interest are inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract and cellular and molecular aspects of host-microbial interactions.

• 1. Intestinal mucosal innate immunity.- 2. Adaptive immunity in the gastrointestinal tract.- 3. Role of epithelial cells in mucosal immunobiology.- 4. Molecular immunology of mucosal T cells.- 5. Bacterial virulence mechanisms and the host immune response to enteric infection.- 6. HIV Infection of the gastrointestinal tract.- 7. Immunological aspects of Helicobacter pylori infection.- 8. Molecular pathogenesis and clinical immmunology of coeliac disease.- 9. Immunopathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease.- 10. Rodent models of chronic intestinal inflammation.- 11. Regulation of intestinal immune responses to local antigens: oral tolerance vs immunopathology.- 12. Mucosal immunisation and vaccines.- 13. Transplantation immunology and the gut.