Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc announced that it is expanding its T-cell therapy development activities to target certain autoimmune diseases. Professor P. Julian Dyson, Ph.D. has joined the company as the head of the Autoimmune Group with responsibility for leading the autoimmune expansion, including the identification and validation of targets, and preclinical assessment of enhanced affinity TCRs directed against autoimmune targets. Professor Julian Dyson joins Adaptimmune as Head of the new Autoimmune Group at the company's research laboratories in Oxfordshire, U.K., with responsibility for leading the development of T-cell immunotherapy for autoimmune indications/conditions.

Prof. Dyson brings 28 years of research experience in immunology working at the Medical Research Council and, since 2007, as Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London.