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Ben Jenkins

@ben-j-jenkins.bsky.social
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Imiwnolegydd Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 • Post Doc @ Swansea University in Nick Jones' group • Interested in #immunometabolism and disease, currently focussing on T cells

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Ben Jenkins @ben-j-jenkins.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Grateful for the opportunity to present our work at #BSI25. Thanks to everyone who took the time to come and have a chat about our poster on the role of mitochondrial ABHD11 in controlling T-cell responses (P-373). A great week of immunology as always!
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Mitochondrial ABHD11 inhibition drives sterol metabolism to modulate T-cell effector function @natcomms.nature.com @nickjonesimmuno.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ben Jenkins @ben-j-jenkins.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Pleased to be able to share our latest work on mitochondrial ABHD11 and its role in regulating T-cell function. Really cool to get to co-author this one with my sister as well. Massive thank you as always to everyone who's been involved with the project.
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Nick Jones @nickjonesimmuno.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Ecstatic to share out latest research looking at the role of mitochondrial ABHD11 in controlling T-cell responses. We think this may be a viable target for autoimmunity. Please do give it a read, we would love to hear your thoughts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mitochondrial ABHD11 inhibition drives sterol metabolism to modulate T-cell effector function - Nature Communications
α/β-hydrolase domain-containing protein 11 (ABHD11) is a mitochondrial hydrolase, and its expression in CD4 + T-cells has been linked to remission status in rheumatoid arthritis. Here the authors repo...
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Nick Jones @nickjonesimmuno.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Really pleased to share the labs first publication in paediatric T-cell leukaemia. We find that the type 2 diabetes drug canagliflozin possesses anti-leukaemic effects that can be enhanced via dietary restriction of serine. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Canagliflozin synergises with serine restriction mediating anti-leukaemic effects in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) is a haematological malignancy commonly driven by NOTCH1 activating mutations. A concomitant feature asso…
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Nick Jones @nickjonesimmuno.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Secondly, PhD student Emma Lucas and myself contributed towards how metabolism shapes relapsed/refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, led by João Barata and colleagues from the T-ALL special interest group www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Underlying biology, challenges and emergent concepts in the treatment of relapsed and refractory pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia - Leukemia
Leukemia - Underlying biology, challenges and emergent concepts in the treatment of relapsed and refractory pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
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Nick Jones @nickjonesimmuno.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The first takes a look at repurposing metabolic drugs as anti-inflammatory agents with @andyhogan82.bsky.social @ben-j-jenkins.bsky.social @obesityimmunology.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/endoc...
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Repurposing metabolic drugs as anti-inflammatory agents
Dysregulation of bodyweight systemic metabolism is intrinsically linked to an inflammatory phenotype, with each underpinning the other. Over the past decade, new classes of drug, such as glucagon-like...
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Nick Jones @nickjonesimmuno.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Really pleased to share two review articles the lab has been involved in lately 👇🏻 Thanks for the involvement!
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Andy Hogan @andyhogan82.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Delighted to share our new review in @cp-trendsendomet.bsky.social on Repurposing metabolic drugs (GLP-1s & SGLT2s) as anti-inflammatory agents! Thanks to @nickjonesimmuno.bsky.social for this joint effort doi.org/10.1016/j.te...
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Nick Jones @nickjonesimmuno.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
First preprint from the lab! Massive effort from @ben-j-jenkins.bsky.social and Yasmin. Thanks always to great collaborators and co-leads James and Emma. Any feedback greatly appreciated: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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ABHD11 inhibition drives sterol metabolism to modulate T cell effector function and alleviate autoimmunity
Chronic inflammation in autoimmunity is driven by T cell hyperactivation. This unregulated response to self is fuelled by heightened metabolic programmes, which offers a promising new direction to unc...
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