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Dr Fabian Flores-Borja , BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, FHEA

Fabian

Lecturer in Immunobiology

Email: f.flores-borja@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 882 8654
Room Number: Room G.82, Blizard Institute

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Dr. Fabian Flores-Borja is a Lecturer in Oral Immunobiology at the Centre for Immunobiology and Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Dentistry.

He graduated with a degree in Biology (Hons) in 1990 and completed an MSc (1997) in Immunology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1998, he won a 3-year scholarship from the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT, Mexico) to conduct a research course in Immunology at the Department of Immunology and Molecular Pathology, University College London (UCL). He was awarded his PhD degree in 2002 for his thesis “Characterisation of the mouse glycosylphosphatidyl-inositol-phospholipase D (GPI-PLD) gene”.

As a postdoctoral research fellow, Fabian joined and collaborated in research projects in autoimmunity at the Bone and Joint Research Unit at the William Harvey Research Institute, QMUL (2002-2005) and at the Centre for Rheumatology, UCL (2005-2012). In these positions, Fabian studied the abnormal BCR-associated signalling in B cells from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and characterised the function and phenotype of regulatory T and B cells in patients with SLE or rheumatoid arthritis ( https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/779894 ).

In 2012, he moved to the Breast Cancer Now research unit at King’s College London (KCL) to learn about and research the role of innate and adaptive immune cells in the tumour microenvironment. During his time at KCL, Fabian collaborated in different projects involving patients’ samples and animal models of head and neck and breast cancer, the aim of these projects being the identification of biomarkers for early diagnostic or prediction of response to treatment.(https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/65879/imaging-technique-predict-breast-cancer/) 

In 2018 Dr. Flores-Borja was appointed as a lecturer in Immunobiology at QMUL

 


Centre: Centre for Oral Immunobiology and Regenerative Medicine

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