Dr Anne Burke-Gaffney

Anne Burke-Gaffney is a Research Lecturer in the Unit of Critical Care at the National Heart and Lung Institute, based at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London.

A graduate of University College Dublin (BSc Pharmacology and PhD, 1993) she secured National Asthma Campaign and subsequently British Heart Foundation funding to carry out her post-doctoral training within the NHLI. In 2002 she was awarded a Wellcome Trust University Lectureship. 

Her research concerns the cellular and molecular mechanisms of sepsis and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and biomarkers for these conditions. Current focus of research includes the role in sepsis/SIRS of the redox active protein thioredoxin and also the receptor for advanced glycation end-products (RAGE) and its ligands, including the S100 family of proteins. She is involved in multidisciplinary translational research integrating basic science and clinical studies in order to provide novel insights into sepsis/SIRS.