Core expertise
Autoimmune diseases
Clinical Nephrology
T cells
Glomerulonephritis
Personalised Immunology
Glomerulonephritis
Biography
Richard Kitching is a physician-scientist who heads a group working in defining how the immune system can injure the kidney in disease. His research focuses on understanding the involvement of leukocytes (white blood cells) in glomerulonephritis, an important cause of kidney disease, so that more targeted and effective treatments can be developed and used. He combines his research with clinical practice in Nephrology that focuses on immune kidney disease.
In recent work, Richard used Goodpasture’s disease, a rare autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks kidneys and the lungs,, as a model disease to address the fundamental question of the nature of the role immune recognition and human leukocyte antigens in autoimmune diseases.
