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Martin Scurr

Martin Scurr

HCRW Advanced Research Fellow

School of Medicine

Overview

I am a Research Fellow within the Division of Infection & Immunity, funded by the Health & Care Research Wales Advanced Fellowship scheme. I am also Chief Scientific Officer at ImmunoServ Ltd. My research focuses on T cell immunology, developing novel tests to measure antigen-specific T cell responses across a range of diseases, including influenza, multiple sclerosis and cancer.

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2011

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Thesis

Research

My research investigates the phenotype, function and standardised measurement of cancer-, bacteria- and virus-specific T cells. My HCRW Advanced Fellowship project will create and assess the effectiveness of a combined T cell and antibody blood test to measure and identify vaccine-induced immunological correlates of protection from influenza infection. 

My prior work has also uncovered the suppressive effects of certain populations of tumour infiltrating T cells on other anti-cancer T cells, leading to the design and implementation of the phase I/II clinical trial, TaCTiCC, testing a novel immunotherapeutic combination in advanced CRC patients. Following this, I am currently investigating whether low-dose cyclophosphamide can prevent relapse in 500 post-surgical CRC patients recruited to the phase II trial, BICCC.

In addition to this, I am also the co-founder and chief scientific officer of ImmunoServ, a Cardiff-based biotechnology company specialising in the immunology sector, with its own R&D pipeline for developing a range of blood tests that measure T cell responses to viruses, bacteria and cancer. I am principal investigator on multiple projects to develop T cell tests for diagnostics and population-scale immunity screens across a range of diseases. 

Biography

2024-present: HCRW Advanced Fellow, Cardiff University

2020-present: Chief Scientific Officer, ImmunoServ

2013-2020: Post-doctoral Researcher, Cardiff University

2009-2013: PhD (Cancer Immunology), Cardiff University

Honours and awards

2022: MediWales Innovation Award

Professional memberships

  • British Society for Immunology
  • MediWales

Committees and reviewing

  • Assessor for Innovate UK
  • Member of a Wellcome/CEPI-funded ‘Industry and Innovation’ Advisory Group
  • Peer reviewer for multiple academic journals

Contact Details

Email ScurrMJ@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29206 87080
Campuses Cardiff Medicentre, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4UJ
Henry Wellcome Building for Biomedical Research, Floor 3, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XN

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Immunology