Simon Milling is a Professor of Immunology and Deputy Head of the Centre for Immunobiology at the School of Infection & Immunity at the University of Glasgow. He received his PhD from Imperial College London, where he studied antigen presentation to human T cell clones under Professor Robert Lechler and Dr Sara Brett. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Philadelphia and Oxford before joining the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in 2007. He became a professor at the university in 2017 and became the Deputy Head of Immunology in 2020.
His research focuses on the biology of antigen-presenting cells in the intestine and skin, and on how these cells respond to infectious or inflammatory stimuli. He has a translational focus on inflammatory bowel disease, spondyloarthropathies, and autoimmune alopecia The aim of this work is to understand the vital roles that antigen-presenting cells play, both in the induction and polarisation of adaptive immune responses against pathogens and in the pathology of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases