Dr Stephen Robinson

Biography

I studied developmental biology for both my undergraduate and PhD degrees at the University of California, Santa Cruz where I investigated the role of TGFbetas in mammary gland development and function. I then moved to MIT where, during my postdoc, I studied the role of selectins in leukocyte biology. In 2000 I moved to the UK to work for Cancer Research UK where I joined a lab investigating the role of integrins in angiogenesis.

In 2011 I started my own group at UEA following this same line of study. Around the time I met a friend and colleague who convinced me that microbiota are essential for human health. In 2018 I established a group at QIB and the lab in split into two halves studying both angiogenesis and the role of the microbiota in vascular function as well as in host interactions as they pertain to cancer.