Rick Maizels

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor of Zoology, University of Edinburgh

BACKGROUND:
Professor Rick Maizels is in the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Immunology and Infection Research. He is an immunologist interested in fundamental questions of how and why parasites manipulate the sophisticated mammalian immune system, and how that system has evolved in the face of parasite immunomodulatory strategies. Before moving to Edinburgh in 1995, Rick was Professor at Imperial College London. Prior to this, he held positions at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, University of California, Los Angeles and California Institute of Technology. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2002, and made a Senior Fellow of the American Asthma Foundation in 2010.

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