Dr Dianne Cooper

Profile

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5553-9447

Dianne Cooper is a Reader in Inflammation Biology at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London. Dianne graduated from the University of Sheffield in 1995 with a BSc in Anatomy and Cell Biology and from the University of Bradford in 1997 with an MSc in Biomedical Sciences. She then completed a PhD at the University of Bradford with Prof. Anne Graham. In 2001 Dianne moved to Shreveport, Louisiana to complete a two-year post-doctoral post in the laboratory of Dr Neil Granger at LSUHSC. Dianne joined the Centre for Biochemical Pharmacology in 2003 and was awarded a Career Development Fellowship from Barts Charity in 2004, a Versus Arthritis Career Development Fellowship in 2007 and a Career Progression Fellowship in 2013. She obtained her lectureship in 2013 and her Senior Lectureship in 2018.

Current roles include Deputy Centre Lead for Biochemical Pharmacology and module lead for Drug Design for Pharmacologists for the Pharmacology and Innovative Therapeutics and Inflammation Therapeutics for the iBSc in Experimental Pharmacology.

Memberships and Awards

• Editor British Journal of Pharmacology
• BIRAs committee member
• LVBF committee member 

Research

Group members

• PhD students: Miss Rachael Wright, Miss Beatrice Gittens

Summary 

Publications

• Rolas L, Stein M, Barkaway A et al. (2024). Senescent endothelial cells promote pathogenic neutrophil trafficking in inflamed tissues.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1038/s44319-024-00182-x

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/98188
• Hussain MT, Austin-Williams S, Wright TD et al. . β1-Integrin-Mediated Uptake of Chondrocyte Extracellular Vesicles Regulates Chondrocyte Homeostasis.

  
  

  DOI: 10.3390/ijms25094756

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/97635
• Fu H, Vuononvirta J, Fanti S et al. (2023). The Glucose Transporter 2 regulates CD8+ T cell function via environment sensing..

  
  

  DOI: 10.1038/s42255-023-00913-9

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/92475
• Sabatucci A, Girella A, Di Bartolomeo M et al. (2023). A possible role for G-quadruplexes formation and DNA methylation at IMOOD gene promoter in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.jbior.2023.100976

  
  

  QMRO:
• Norling LV, Cooper D (2023). Being old and female is an inflammatory combination.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1093/jleuko/qiad077

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/95403
• D'Acquisto F, D'Addario C, Cooper D et al. (2023). Peripheral control of psychiatric disorders: Focus on OCD. Are we there yet?.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2023.152388

  
  

  QMRO:
• Poston RN, Chughtai J, Ujkaj D et al. . Monocytic Cell Adhesion to Oxidised Ligands: Relevance to Cardiovascular Disease.

  
  

  DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10123083

  
  

  QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/83452
• Krautter F, Hussain MT, Zhi Z et al. (2022). Galectin-9: A novel promoter of atherosclerosis progression.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2022.11.014

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/83092
• Law HL, Cooper D (2022). Methods for Assessing the Effects of Galectins on Leukocyte Trafficking and Clearance.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2055-7_31

  
  

  QMRO:
• Hamilton A, Rizzo R, Brod S et al. (2022). The immunomodulatory effects of social isolation in mice are linked to temperature control.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2022.02.022

  
  

  QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/83091

Collaborators

Internal

• Prof Tim Warner (Blizard)
• Prof Shu Ye (WHRI)
• Dr Robin Poston (WHRI)
• Dr Tina Chowdhury (SEMS)
• Dr Egle Solito (WHRI)

External

• Prof Mitsuomi Hirashima (Kagawa University, Japan)
• Dr Toshiro Niki (GalPharma Inc., Japan)