Professor Terry Cook FMedSci
Professor of Renal Pathology
Imperial College London
Elected Fellow 2008
histopathology of native and transplant kidneys; pathophysiology and genetics of glomerulonephritis
Terry Cook is Professor of Renal Pathology at Imperial College London. He has made key contributions to the understanding of inflammation in glomerulonephritis. Much of this work has focussed on the role of macrophages as mediators of glomerular injury, and their state of activation. Using animal models of glomerulonephritis, he demonstrated the importance of nitric oxide synthesis in glomerular inflammation. He has also led the field in showing how different cytokines affect macrophage phenotype. Leading on from this work, he has investigated the genetic basis of susceptibility to glomerulonephritis in the rat, and discovered that copy number variation in one of the immunoglobulin Fc receptors plays a major role. Terry Cook is the leading academic renal pathologist in the UK, consulted by nephrologists and pathologists from across the world and we welcome him to our Academy today.