Francesco Colucci

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University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom 
Area:
Immunology, Reproduction, Cancer
Website:
https://www.obgyn.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-francesco-colucci/
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Dr. Francesco Colucci’s work over the last 20 years has helped to understand how natural killer cells (NK) develop and function, how they target cancer cells, and how maternal NK cells regulate fetal growth. He qualified in medicine at the University of Bari in 1991 and obtained a PhD at the University of Umeå with Takeshi Matsunaga and Dan Holmberg, for his work on Type 1 Diabetes. After a postdoctoral training at the Necker Hospital in Alain Fischer’s unit in Paris, he was recruited as a staff scientist at the Pasteur Institute with James Di Santo in 2000 and then became principal investigator at the Cambridge-based Babraham Institute in 2004. Since 2010, he is the Reader in Immunology at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Cambridge where he is also a Fellow of King's College and a Wellcome Trust Investigator. Dr. Colucci is one of the managers of the University of Cambridge Centre for Trophoblast Research and an advisor of the Ruggero Ceppellini Advanced School of Immunology.
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Parents

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Dan Holmberg grad student 1992-1997 Umeå University
Takeshi Matsunaga grad student 1992-1997 Umeå University
 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14557899)
James P DiSanto post-doc 1997-2000 Institut Pasteur

Children

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Simona Zompi grad student 2002-2004 Institut Pasteur
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Samper N, Hardardottir L, Depierreux DM, et al. (2024) Kir6.1, a component of an ATP-sensitive potassium channel, regulates natural killer cell development. Frontiers in Immunology. 15: 1490250
Tukwasibwe S, Lewis SN, Taremwa Y, et al. (2024) Natural killer cell antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity to is impacted by cellular phenotypes, erythrocyte polymorphisms, parasite diversity and intensity of transmission. Clinical & Translational Immunology. 13: e70005
Samper N, Harðardóttir L, Depierreux DM, et al. (2024) Kir6.1, a component of an ATP-sensitive potassium channel, regulates natural killer cell development. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology
Bos M, Colucci F. (2024) A New Look at Immunogenetics of Pregnancy: Maternal Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Educates Uterine Natural Killer Cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25
Cazzetta V, Depierreux D, Colucci F, et al. (2023) NKG2A Immune Checkpoint in Vδ2 T Cells: Emerging Application in Cancer Immunotherapy. Cancers. 15
Colucci F. (2022) Uterine NK Cells Ace an "A" in Education: NKG2A Sets Up Crucial Functions at the Maternal-Fetal Interface. Journal of Immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 209: 1421-1425
Depierreux DM, Kieckbusch J, Shreeve N, et al. (2022) Beyond Maternal Tolerance: Education of Uterine Natural Killer Cells by Maternal MHC Drives Fetal Growth. Frontiers in Immunology. 13: 808227
Wang F, Qualls AE, Marques-Fernandez L, et al. (2021) Biology and pathology of the uterine microenvironment and its natural killer cells. Cellular & Molecular Immunology
Huhn O, Zhao X, Esposito L, et al. (2021) How Do Uterine Natural Killer and Innate Lymphoid Cells Contribute to Successful Pregnancy? Frontiers in Immunology. 12: 607669
Shmeleva EV, Colucci F. (2021) Maternal natural killer cells at the intersection between reproduction and mucosal immunity. Mucosal Immunology
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