Helen McGettrick completed her PhD in 2006 and followed 3 Post-doctoral research positions at University of Birmingham (UK). She was appointed as a University Fellow in Inflammation Biology in 2011, and a year later, she successfully won a five year Arthritis Research UK Career Development Fellowship. She was recently awarded the prestigious “Garrod Prize” by the British Society for Rheumatology in 2016. She is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Newcastle University (UK). She has more than 30 published articles with ≈ 760 citations, has filed 3 patents and received funding from Welcome Trust, Pfizer and British Heart Foundation. Helen McGettrick completed her PhD in 2006 and followed 3 Post-doctoral research positions at University of Birmingham (UK). She was appointed as a University Fellow in Inflammation Biology in 2011, and a year later, she successfully won a five year Arthritis Research UK Career Development Fellowship. She was recently awarded the prestigious “Garrod Prize” by the British Society for Rheumatology in 2016. She is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Newcastle University (UK). She has more than 30 published articles with ≈ 760 citations, has filed 3 patents and received funding from Welcome Trust, Pfizer and British Heart Foundation.

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