Prof. Tim Elliott University of Oxford, UK

Tim Elliott left the University of Oxford with a first in Biochemistry in 1983 and completed his PhD in cancer immunotherapy at the University of Southampton in 1986. He did his postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Herman Eisen at the Center for Cancer Research. In 1990... read morehe returned to the University of Oxford to join the Institute for Molecular Medicine as a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, joining a key group of immunologists studying antigen presentation at the molecular level. In 1993 he was appointed to a lectureship and later a Professorship at the University of Oxford, as a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science. In 2000, he moved to the University of Southampton as Professor of Experimental Oncology and Director of the Southampton Centre for Cancer. He was the founding appointment to the Kidani Chair of Immuno-Oncology at the University of Oxford in 2020. Tim is a world leader in the field of antigen presentation and T cell biology and has incorporated discoveries in the areas of antigen processing, T cell regulation and immunodominance into the development of new cancer immunotherapies.