Ben Willcox

Prof of Molecular Immunology at University of Birmingham, UK, and Director of the Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre at UoB. Father of two manic girls.

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

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[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

Want to get up to speed with immune checkpoint blockade therapy for cancer ?
Register now for this online 13-hour CPD course ‘Understanding immune checkpoint blockade therapy: a pillar of modern cancer treatment’, from the University of Birmingham, UK, starting on Jan 24th, 2024.

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

@forum_gd @ErinJAdams Great talks ! A q. for Erin...What is the phenotype of the CD1-reactive Vδ1 cells (eg Tnaive vs Teffector) ?? Given huge diversity in the Vδ1 TCR repertoire and in the CD1 binding modes, do some reflect the ‘universe of possibilities’ – rather than Teffector specificities ??

[Doug Brown @dougbrown_1]

Exciting day for us launching our new #DiversityandInclusion framework! I’m so proud of the team and our membership for all we’ve done to date, but there’s always more we can do. Have a read to see how we are going to take this forward with our members and wonderful community 👇

[Peter Frampton @peterframpton]

26 years ago, a gunman entered
Dunblane Primary School in Scotland,
killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK
govt responded by enacting tight gun
control legislation. In the 9400+ days
since, there have been a total of O
school shootings in the UK. #Uvalde

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

Great to get McMurray et al out in Cell Reports, a page turner about transcriptional control of adaptive gd T cells. Thx to all co-authors and congrats to the talented @JackMcMurray. Strong similarities to ab T cells bring things back to ligand recognition as key gd USP.

[Willcox LAB @LabWillcox]

Thanks to all who contributed to this study, @martindavey85 @DrAnoukvB @WillcoxCarrie @MariaSharif_ @helenmed @Jamie_Rossjohn and others, and congratulations to first author @JackMcMurray 🥳

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

@forum_gd Super-impressive paper (Singh et al) in Nature on a new ‘immunoantibiotic’ approach to tackle drug resistant microbes, which enlists the help of Vγ9Vδ2 T cells. Here is our News and Views, co-authored with @Youcef_Mehellou https://t.co/lPwLD5oZuP

[Nature News & Views @NatureNV]

An ‘immunoantibiotic’ drug launches a two-pronged attack on antibiotic-resistant microbes. Learn more this terrific N&V by @Youcef_Mehellou & @profbenw
https://t.co/MBHVO42uQZ

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

Super-impressive study by Singh et al in Nature on an ‘immunoantibiotic’ approach to tackle drug resistant microbes, enlisting help from γδ T cells. Check out our News and Views, co-authored with @Youcef_Mehellou. https://t.co/lPwLD5oZuP @NatureNV @ImmunologyUoB @IMIBirmingham

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

Massive congratulations to David Bending for scooping an MRC Career Development Fellowship ! Great to see a young scientist get career-changing support. So happy for him and @BendingLab.

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

Signed, sealed, delivered, installed and operational ! Thanks to @menala76 and the GE team for setting up our new ÄKTA Pure. Here's to the next 17 years ! #AKTA #chromatography #proteinpurification

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

In case you've been wondering what γδ T cells have been getting up to over the last 500m years, check out our latest review.

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

@CRUKResearch
Extremely informative visit to the CRUK Birmingham Centre from CRUK’s CDD team and the CRUK-Astra Zeneca Antibody Alliance Laboratory yesterday. Many thanks to Nigel Blackburn, Rob Williams and Julie Little for helping us take our research from lab to patient !

[Willcox LAB @LabWillcox]

Check out our new paper in Immunity 👉🏻 “Butyrophilin-like 3 Directly Binds a Human Vγ4+ T Cell Receptor Using a Modality Distinct from Clonally-Restricted Antigen”
https://t.co/bfYIdg0j0N
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#gdTcells @forum_gd @unibirm_MDS @CIIC_UoB @ImmunologyUoB @ImmunityCP #immunology #Tcells

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

@StridLab Thanks Jessica, yes it will be fun to see how far this superantigen-like paradigm takes us all. It was great to work with the Haydays on this !

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

@CoffeltLab Thanks Seth - glad you like and hope all is well !

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

Read our Nat Comm study suggesting some human gamma delta T cells are MUCH more adaptive than thought ! https://t.co/DFYcr30Meh #immunology

[Ben Willcox @ProfBenW]

@wellcometrust Thanks 4 funding my best research paper ever ! Starting 2 decipher gamma delta T cells. https://t.co/DFYcr30Meh #immunology😀

[Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre @CIIC_UoB]

Mike Stubbington (Sanger Centre), seminar: “Exploring T cell fate and clonality using single cell transcriptomes”. TODAY Mon 9th S104, 3pm

[Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre @CIIC_UoB]

Welcome to Week 2 of our Cancer Immunotherapy MOOC at Future Learn.Q: Why is cancer such a challenge for the immune system? #FLCancerTherapy