Professor Derek Gilroy

In 1997 Derek Gilroy obtained his PhD from the William Harvey Research Institute, University of London for investigations in the role of inducible cyclooxygenase in inflammation working with the late Professors Derek Willoughby and Sir John Vane. Thereafter, he left The William Harvey to receive postdoctoral training with Dr. Kenneth Wu, jointly at the University of Houston Texas and at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Tawian from 1998-2000. After which time, he returned to the William Harvey Research Institute for a further 4 years. In 2004, Derek was appointed as New Blood lecturer funded as a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow at the Division of Medicine, Rayne Building, University College London. In 2009 he became a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and in 2010 was promoted to Professor of Experimental Immunology. At University College he is now Head of the Centre for Clinical Pharmacology where he has pioneered research examining the molecular and biochemical pathways that regulates the resolution of acute immune reactions. Prof. Gilroy has won the Bayer International Young Investigator Award for aspirin Research, 2005 and the British Pharmacological Society, Norvartis Award