Helen McGettrick
University of Birmingham, UK
Biography
Helen McGettrick has completed her PhD in 2006, followed by three Post-doctoral research positions at the University of Birmingham (UK). She was appointed as a University Fellow in Inflammation Biology in 2011, and a year later successfully won a five year Arthritis Research UK Career Development Fellowship. She was recently awarded the prestigious Garrod Prize by the British Society for Rheumatology in 2016. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Newcastle University (UK). She has ~40 published articles with ≈ 760 citations, has filed three patents and received funding from Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council UK, Pfizer and British Heart Foundation.
Abstract
Abstract : Podoplanin regulates mesenchymal stem cell behaviour in flowing blood and within the tissue