J. Hill Gaston
Prof. Gaston read medicine at Lincoln College, Oxford and undertook general medical training in London and Bristol. Research training began in Bristol as a CRC Fellow, and postdoctoral training at Stanford with an MRC travelling fellowship. He returned to the UK to the Department of Rheumatology in Birmingham where he was Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow and honorary consultant, before moving to Cambridge in 1995 as the foundation professor of rheumatology. His research interests are in immunological mechanisms in rheumatic disease, particularly spondyloarthritis, and interactions between infection and the immune system. Prof. Gaston’s has an active group of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students, working in cellular immunology, particularly T cell cloning (see www.med.cam.ac.uk). Current pre-occupations in the laboratory include cytokine production by dendritic cells and the influence of the ER stress response on this, the interaction between intracellular bacteria and the cytokine response, properties of Th17 cells in rheumatic disease, and characteristics of CD8+ Treg cells.
Prof Gaston is married to a local G.P. and has two grown-up children; interests outside work include science and faith issues (member of the Advisory Board of the Faraday Institute, see http://graphite.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/), music (listening, not making), reading and travel.
