Calum Bain

Dr Calum Bain is a group leader at the Centre for Inflammation Research (CIR) at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Calum graduated from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in Immunology in 2007 before carrying out a PhD with Professor Allan Mowat in the Centre for Immunobiology (University of Glasgow) investigating the heterogeneity and origin of macrophages in intestinal homeostasis and disease, for which he was awarded the Joseph Black Medal and Alan Hird Prize in Medicine for the top PhD thesis in the School of Medicine. In June 2014, Calum moved took up a postdoctoral position with Dr Steve Jenkins at the CIR to examine the ontogeny and environmental control of serous cavity macrophages. In February 2017, Calum was awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust/Royal Society to establish his own lab within the CIR with a focus on the understanding the factors controlling the tissue imprinting of mucosal macrophages in health and disease.