Alison Mary Condliffe PhD

Alison Mary Condliffe is a Professor in the Department of Infection, Immunity, and Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Sheffield. She studied medicine in Cambridge and London and undertook clinical training in London and Edinburgh. Her Ph.D. was supervised by Professor Chris Haslett and Professor Edwin Chilvers in Edinburgh and identified a key role for the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling pathway in neutrophil priming and activation. She was awarded a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship to pursue this finding at the Inositide Laboratory at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, with Dr. Phill Hawkins and Dr. Len Stephens. Her subsequent appointment as a University Lecturer in Cambridge in 2007 enabled a more translational research focus, in particular studying the impact of hypoxia on neutrophil function and establishing novel imaging techniques using radiolabelled neutrophils and eosinophils in man; during this time I forged clinical and research links with the Department of Immunology in Cambridge.