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Lucy Wedderburn
She trained in Cambridge and then London in Immunology and Rheumatology and then spent time training in science in the University of Stanford, USA, before returning to University College London (UCL) and GOSH on a Wellcome Trust Fellowship. She has been at GOSH for more than 10 years as a consultant.
Specialisms
Professor Wedderburn’s areas of interest include childhood arthritis, which is also called Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) and childhood myositis, also called Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM). She has a regular clinic where she sees children with arthritis and a range of other rheumatology conditions.
She runs a research team that investigate the mechanisms and different types of these diseases, as well as what controls response to treatment. She is the Chief Investigator of a large cohort study in JDM that includes centres from across the UK and is now the Director of the newly established Arthritis Research UK Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology at UCL, UCL Hospitals and GOSH.
Qualifications
2007: Fellow of Royal College of Physicians
1999: member Royal College of Paediatrics Child Health
1995: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of London
1989: Member of the Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians
1986: Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery
1982: Bachelor of Arts, University of Cambridge
Research Interests
immunopathogenesis of paediatric autoimmune diseases in particular JIA and JDM
the control of childhood immune responses in particular T cell responses
JDM vasculopathy
JIA genetics
muscle stem cell work
gene expression profiling/genomics
characterisation of the genetic and immunological factors that control response to medication in childhood arthritis
Contact
Email: lucy.wedderburn@gosh.nhs.uk