Professor Adrian Thrasher
Professor in Paediatric Immunology and Wellcome Trust SRF
ICH Infect, Imm, Infla. & Physio Med
UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
Professor Adrian Thrasher’s clinical interests are the diagnosis and treatment of patients with primary immunodeficiency. His specialist interests are in the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome (WAS), disorders of innate immunity, and Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome. His team at UCL GOSICH/GOSH are conducting trials of somatic gene therapy for various forms of PID including SCID-X1, CGD, ADA-SCID, and WAS. Research interests include the pathophysiology of primary immunodeficiency syndromes especially WAS, the actin cytoskeleton in haematopoietic cells, the development of somatic gene therapy, and thymus transplantation.