Prof. Eddy F Y LIEW (UK)

After graduating in Chemistry at Monash University, Melbourne, Liew took a PhD in Immunology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University. He is Gardiner Professor of Immunology, University of Glasgow, UK and the founding Director of the Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre. His main research contributions have been in the understanding of the role of CD4+ T cell subsets in infection and inflammation. His group was the first to show the heterogeneity of CD4+ T cells and their functional role in Leishmania infection. He also showed that nitric oxide plays a central role in the destruction of intracellular pathogens and in mediating inflammatory pathology. More recently, his group demonstrated that Interleukin (IL)-15, IL-18, IL-33 and IL-35 play an important role in rheumatoid arthritis. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1995, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science in 1999, and was awarded the Sheikh Hamdan Prize for research excellence in 2002. He was elected President of the European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS) 2003-2006. He is Editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Immunology and chairs the Biomedical Research Grant Panel, Hong Kong.