Prof Gurdyal Besra

Prof Gurdyal  Besra
Prof Gurdyal Besra
Bardrick Professor of Microbial Physiology & Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Speaker

Talks at BSP Autumn Symposium 2016, Durham - Microbial protein targets: towards understanding and intervention

Profile of Prof Gurdyal Besra


Professor Besra heads a world-leading multidisciplinary team investigating key aspects of the microbial physiology of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell wall and the potential role of iNKT/CD1d therapeutics. He has been awarded and successfully managed over 40 research grants valued at over £20 million from The Wellcome Trust, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) during the period 2001-2016.

He has published over 450 internationally peer-reviewed articles (e.g. in Science, Nature, Immunity, Journal of Experimental Medicine, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA), reviews and book chapters, been cited over 16,000 times and has an H-index score of 91 (Google Scholar).

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