Professor John Trowsdale FMedSci
Emeritus Professor
University of Cambridge
Elected Fellow 2000
genetics of immunity, polymorphic genes such as MHC and NK receptors, antigen processing and presentation
Professor John Trowsdale is Professor of Immunology in the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge. His work has focused on the genetics and functions of the human MHC class II region. His main achievements are linked with the initial discovery and function analysis of genes including HLA-DQ, -DO, -DM, -LMP and –TAP. Several of these genes were initially named RING genes, which stands for really interesting new gene and this turned out to be a prophetic nomenclature. Professor Trowsdale initiated the complete sequencing of human MHC, the fruits of which have recently appeared.