Profile of Menna Clatworthy
Dr Clatworthy read Medicine at Cardiff, completed her professional training in nephrology at Cambridge, and undertook a PhD at the University of Cambridge, winning the Academy of Medical Science/Medical Research Soc. Young Investigator Award and UK Renal Association Raine Award for this work. She subsequently completed a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship at Cambridge and the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA. Dr Clatworthy established her own lab in the University of Cambridge Molecular Immunity Unit within the new MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2013. She also works as a consultant nephrologist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, principally involved in the care of kidney and kidney-pancreas transplant recipients. Her research is focused on understanding the regulation of antibody generation and effector function, novel methods of targeting humoral immunity in kidney transplantation and the role of tissue-environment in shaping resident immune cell activation and function, particularly in the kidney.