Rate My Professor Leonie Taams

The research in the Taams lab focuses on fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms that initiate, perpetuate, and regulate immune-mediated inflammation in human health and disease, with particular emphasis on tissue immunology, T cell and monocyte function, stromal and neuronal interactions, and their roles in rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. Notable publications include 'CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells induce alternative activation of human monocytes/macrophages' (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007), 'CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells in rheumatoid arthritis: differences in the presence, phenotype, and function between peripheral blood and synovial fluid' (Arthritis & Rheumatism, 2004), and recent works such as 'Barrier breakdown: insights into the skin–gut axis in psoriatic arthritis' (Trends in Immunology, 2026) and 'Linking Skin and Joint Inflammation in Psoriatic Arthritis through Shared CD8+ T Cell Clones' (Arthritis & Rheumatology, 2025). She received the King’s Graduate School Supervisory Excellence Award in 2012, the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine Collaborative Research Excellence Award in 2025, and the Outstanding Contribution to the BSI Award in 2025. Taams served as Editor-in-Chief of Clinical & Experimental Immunology from 2017 to 2024, Congress Secretary and Trustee of the British Society for Immunology, and frequently contributes to scientific programme committees, advisory boards, and funding panels.