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Alison Simmons

Contact information

Email
alison.simmons@imm.ox.ac.uk

Telephone
+44 (0) 1865 222412 (Renata Sojka)

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Renata Sojka
renata.sojka@rdm.ox.ac.uk

Research groups

Simmons Group: Intestinal Immunity in Health and Disease

DPhil Projects Available

2026 Simmons Group: Engineering Intestinal Mesenchymal Niches to Promote Epithelial Barrier Health Through Life — Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Alison Simmons

PhD FRCP FMedSci

Director of the MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit

Consultant Physician
Professor of Gastroenterology

Key publications

Spatial fibroblast niches define Crohn’s fistulae

McGregor C. et al, (2026), Nature, 649, 703 - 712

Tracking in situ checkpoint inhibitor-bound target T cells in patients with checkpoint-induced colitis

Gupta T. et al, (2024), Cancer Cell, 42, 797 - 814.e15

Spatiotemporal analysis of human intestinal development at single-cell resolution

Fawkner-Corbett D. et al, (2021), Cell, 184, 810 - 826.e23

Single-cell atlas of colonic CD8+ T cells in ulcerative colitis

Corridoni D. et al, (2020), Nature Medicine, 26, 1480 - 1490

Colonic epithelial cell diversity in health and inflammatory bowel disease

Parikh K. et al, (2019), Nature, 567, 49 - 55

Invasive Salmonella exploits divergent immune evasion strategies in infected and bystander dendritic cell subsets

Aulicino A. et al, (2018), Nature Communications, 9

Structural Remodeling of the Human Colonic Mesenchyme in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Kinchen J. et al, (2018), Cell, 175, 372 - 386.e17

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