Contact information
Research groups
Alex Clarke
PhD FRCP
Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellow
- Senior Clinical Research Fellow
- Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
I qualified in Medicine from UCL in 2001, and trained in Rheumatology in London. Supported by a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship, I completed a PhD on the role of autophagy in lupus in 2013, supervised by Tim Vyse at King’s College London.
After completing my medical specialist training, I moved to Oxford to join the group of Katja Simon at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine as a postdoctoral clinical fellow in 2014, again supported by the Wellcome Trust.
In 2018 I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship, establishing my own group here at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology.
Key publications
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Dynamic mitochondrial transcription and translation in B cells control germinal center entry and lymphomagenesis.
Journal article
Yazicioglu YF. et al, (2023), Nat Immunol
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Autophagy in the renewal, differentiation and homeostasis of immune cells.
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Clarke AJ. and Simon AK., (2019), Nat Rev Immunol, 19, 170 - 183
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B1a B cells require autophagy for metabolic homeostasis and self-renewal.
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Clarke AJ. et al, (2018), J Exp Med, 215, 399 - 413
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Autophagy is activated in systemic lupus erythematosus and required for plasmablast development.
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Clarke AJ. et al, (2015), Ann Rheum Dis, 74, 912 - 920
Recent publications
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Amplification of autoimmune organ damage by NKp46-activated ILC1.
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Biniaris-Georgallis S-I. et al, (2024), Nature
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Mitochondrial control of lymphocyte homeostasis.
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Yazicioglu YF. et al, (2024), Semin Cell Dev Biol, 161-162, 42 - 53
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LAT1 enables T cell activation under inflammatory conditions.
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Ogbechi J. et al, (2023), J Autoimmun, 138
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The kiss a cell can't forget: tracking cell-cell interactions with uLIPSTIC.
Journal article
Yazicioglu YF. and Clarke AJ., (2023), Nat Rev Immunol
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Dynamic mitochondrial transcription and translation in B cells control germinal center entry and lymphomagenesis.
Journal article
Yazicioglu YF. et al, (2023), Nat Immunol