Matthias Friedrich

Research Group Lead at the University of Oxford

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • University of Oxford (Full-time · 10 yrs 10 mos)
    • Principal Investigator (Wellcome Trust CDA)
      Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Translational and experimental approaches to study immune-mediated diseases, in particular inflammatory bowel diseases. Focus on improving outcome, precision-targeting medicines, and developing alternative therapeutics to treat fibrosis.

    • Research Group Lead (Translational Gastroenterology Unit)
      Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

    • Postdoctoral Researcher
      Oct 2015 - Mar 2023 · 7 yrs 6 mos

      Dissecting the cellular and molecular characteristics of inflammation and therapy response in inflammatory bowel disease and arthritis. Focus on Fibroblast Biology.

  • Oxford-UCB Prize Fellow at UCB
    Nov 2017 - Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Epigenetic profiling of pathogenic stromal responses in inflammation at the single-cell level

  • Roche Postdoctoral Fellow at Roche
    Feb 2016 - Oct 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Therapeutic targeting of fibroblast subsets and their use for drug discovery in Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases

  • Doctoral Student at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
    2010 - 2015 · 5 yrs

    Regulation of IL-17 and IL-36 cytokines at epithelial barrier sites in inflammatory bowel disease and skin inflammation

  • Internship at Charité - University Medicine Berlin
    2009 - 2010 · 1 yr

    Tissue engineering group, developing and validating assays for mesenchymal stem cell differentiation and labeling