Professor within the Division of Infection Immunity, Cardiff University
Co-Director of Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University

Professor Gallimore gained a DPhil in Professor Andrew McMichael’s laboratory in Oxford, studying the immune response to simian and human immunodeficiency viruses. With a Wellcome Trust travelling fellowship she moved to the laboratory of the Nobel Laureate Professor Rolf Zinkernagel to further study factors important for anti-viral immunity. She subsequently returned to Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo’s laboratory at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine to identify ways of breaking immune tolerance to boost recognition of cancer cells.

With a Career Development Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust, Awen established her laboratory in the Nuffield Department of Medicine in Oxford with a focus on examining the role of regulatory T cells in cancer. She moved to Cardiff and gained a Senior Fellowship from the MRC to grow the lab, joining forces with Professor Andrew Godkin to expand the lab’s ability to perform translational and clinical research.

The Gallimore Godkin lab (cancerimmunology.co.uk) currently receives funding from Cancer Research UK, Cancer Research Wales, Breast Cancer Now and The Wellcome Trust and takes basic research using model systems of cancer through to testing novel immunotherapies in patients with cancer.