I feel incredibly honoured and privileged to receive this award and recognition. I ♥️ the @britsocimm.bsky.social. If you're not yet a BSI member, do sign up and become part of this amazing and supportive community, with an excellent #researchculture

British Society for Immunology@britsocimm.bsky.social · last yr.

And it's the moment you've all been waiting for... time to announce our first winner! The winner of the 2025 Outstanding Contribution to the BSI Award is…. Professor Leonie Taams, @taamslab.bsky.social Congratulations on your achievement!

King’s has been named the 31st best university in the world and 5th best in the UK in the QS World University rankings 2026. 🎉 Find out more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/qs-king... #QSWUR #QSWUR2026

Delighted that our work on JAK inhibitors acting directly on human sensory neurons with @denklab.bsky.social has made the front cover of @jci-insight.bsky.social

JCI insight@insight.jci.org · last yr.

This issue’s cover features work by‬ Leonie S. Taams & team @denklab.bsky.social —JAK inhibitors act directly on human sensory neurons: buff.ly/trWfkCr The image shows iPSC–derived sensory neurons stained with β III tubulin (green), Brn3a (red), and DAPI (blue).

Super proud to share another recent output from the Taams lab at @kclcibci.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, performed by the wonderful Lucy Durham, in close collaboration with Fran Humby & Bruce Kirkham and many others. doi.org/10.1002/art....

Clonal sharing of CD8+ T‐cells links skin and joint inflammation in psoriatic arthritis

Objective Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an HLA class I-associated inflammatory arthritis that develops in up to 30% of people with psoriasis. We tested the hypothesis that skin and joint inflammation...

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This was a fantastic collaboration with @denklab.bsky.social leading to intriguing and exciting novel mechanistic insight as to how JAK inhibitors may reduce #pain in #rheumatoid #arthritis by acting directly on #sensory #neurons. Thank you to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this work.

@denklab@denklab.bsky.social · last yr.

Many congratulations to our joint Denk/@taamslab.bsky.social PhD student Yuening Li for her new paper explaining why JAK inhibitors are better painkillers in rheumatoid arthritis than other biologics: insight.jci.org/articles/vie... 🧪🧠 #PainResearch #painscience #Immunosky

Also super proud of postdoc Dr Rosie Ross who won a prize for best talk at the recent fabulous #EWRR workshop in Budapest. Her talk was on the peripheral drivers of #pain in #rheumatoid #arthritis.

Super proud of 3rd year PhD student Katie Lambert, who won a people's choice award for her excellent talk on Effector T cell-modulated #monocytes resemble myeloid cells from the site of inflammation at the recent #PhD symposium of our School of #Immunology and #Microbial Sciences. Well done Katie 🎉🤩