Dr Jeremy Allen

Biography

I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science and Academic Lead for Biomedicine at the University of Salford, School of Environment & Life Sciences. Born in Lichfield, England I studied at the University of Keele, England, in two separate periods between 1982 and 1992, completing a BSc in Biology and a PhD investigating the pathophysiology of a pathogenic parasite.  In 1991 I received an MSc in Biotechnology from the University of Newcastle, England. 

I joined the School of Postgraduate Medicine at the University Hospitals of North Midlands (Royal Stoke University Hospital), England as an NHS Clinical Scientist and Research Fellow from 1992-2003. I was appointed in 2003 to Lecturer in Biosciences at the University of Salford, gaining a PgCert in Higher Education Practice & Research in 2006. In 2009 I was appointed to Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science and in 2011 was made a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS). 

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Areas of research 

Inflammation, Fibrosis

I am an active member of the Biomedical Research Centre with research interests focused on investigating the cellular pathology and pathogenesis of host-pathogen interactions, inflammation and fibrosis (Fibrosis & Inflammation Research Group), primarily in collaboration with Dr Lucy Smyth, also based at Salford 

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Biology; University of Keele (1985)

MSc Biotechnology; University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1991)

PhD Pathophysiology; University of Keele (1992)

PgCert Higher Education Practice & Research; University of Salford (2006)

FIBMS Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science (2011) 

Memberships

European Respiratory Society

American Thoracic Society

American Physiological Society

British Association for Lung Research

British Society for Parasitology

Physiological Society

Institute of Biomedical Science

International Society for Hepatic Sinusoidal Research