Dr Egle Solito

Dr Egle Solito is Reader in Immunobiology and heads the Blood-Brain Barrier research group at William Harvey Research Institute Bart’s and the London Scholl of Medicine Queen Mary University London (WHRI-SMD). She obtained her PjD at University of Pavia (Italy) and in 1993 she was awarded an EU fellowship (Biotech program) and joined the Institut Cochin de Genetique Moleculaire, INSERM, in Paris, France. In January 2000, she moved to Imperial College London, UK, where she continued her long-term interest in annexin A1 biology and inflammation. She is fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and British Pharmacology Society.Her research is centred on the impact of peripheral inflammation and metabolism on immune cell trafficking across the brain barriers with the final goal to identify molecules which aid the resolution of inflammation. Her research is sponsored by ARUK, Wellcome Trust and Italian Society for Multiple Sclerosis (FISM).