Autoimmunity

K M Gillespie is a Molecular Biologist with a long term interest in the genetic mechanisms underlying autoimmunity. She has joined the Diabetes and Metabolism Unit in 1998 as a Non-Clinical Lecturer having worked previously as a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Academic Renal Unit in Bristol and at the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge. Her current research projects include further analysis of the novel observation that maternal cells have the capacity todifferentiate into functional pancreatic beta cells, studies into the role of NK cells in autoimmune diabetes and the immunogenetic characterization of Diabetes in Down’s Syndrome. She has research interests in autoimmunity, genetic mechanisms, maternal cells, functional pancreatic beta cells, NK cells, autoimmune diabetes and diabetes.