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LNRUK Co-lead, Oxford
Katrina Pollock is a Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinician Scientist in Vaccinology and Associate Director (People and Culture) of the Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford. She is also an Honorary Consultant at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Her laboratory investigates vaccine-induced immunity in human lymph nodes using an experimental medicine and multiomics approach to elucidate fundamental mechanisms of the human immune system and understand how these change with age. She founded Lymph Node Research UK, funded by the MRC/UKRI, to establish and disseminate best practice in human lymph node research.
Katrina is a member of the UK Clinical Vaccine Network Steering Committee and serves as Conference Chair for 2026. She studied medicine at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, before completing specialty training at Imperial College London as a clinician scientist in genitourinary medicine. During this time, she completed a PhD and held a lectureship in cellular immunology.
She received an award from Imperial College London in recognition of substantial and exceptional achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside her scientific and clinical work, she is committed to meaningful community involvement in research, helping to ensure that scientific innovation translates into improvements that positively affect people’s lives.
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