Affiliation: Medical School of Trinity College Dublin, Department of Molecular Rheumatology

Dr Achilleas Floudas is a senior research fellow of the Department of Molecular Rheumatology at the Medical School of Trinity College Dublin.  His research is patient centric and highly collaborative, utilizing immunological, bioinformatic and bioengineering approaches in order to study immune-stromal cell interactions at the site of inflammation in rheumatoid (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA), the inflamed joint. His work has led to the identification of polyfunctional T cells, characterised by the simultaneous secretion of multiple pro-inflammatory cytokines, in the joints or at-risk individuals prior to the development of clinical signs of RA. He has previously received an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral fellowship while at the laboratory of translational immunology of Prof. Fallon and recently he was the recipient of the CARD innovation award for his work on synovial tissue inflammation.