Ryan Thwaites
Bio
Ryan Thwaites is a mucosal immunologist specialising in the human upper airway, based at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. Ryan's work developed the Nasosorption approach of directly sampling mucosal lining fluid from the upper airway and has applied this technique to studies of natural and experimental respiratory viral infections in infants and adults. Nasosorption is now being increasingly adopted as a gold-standard method for upper respiratory sampling. Using these samples alongside analytical tools including proteomics, immunoassays, and transcriptomics, Ryan's work aims to understand the association between early mucosal responses to a virus and the balance between subsequent protective and harmful immune responses.
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