Dr Claire Bourke

Claire Bourke

Lecturer/Research Fellow

Centre for Genomics and Child Health
Queen Mary University of London
07807 917025
www.qmul.ac.uk/blizard/staff/centre-for-genomics-and-child-health/staff/claire-bourke.html

Research

Immunology, Population Health, Malnutrition, Inflammation, Maternal and child health

Infectious Disease and Inflammation Models, Skin Models

Interests

12 years experience of in vitro models with human and murine cell lines and primary cells (parasite infection, HIV, malnutrition, birth cohorts, skin barrier, gut epithelium...). Interest in developing these into lab-on-a-chip format and new mixed cell type models from bench to bedside to facilitate functional immunology assays in low-income clinical and household.