Professor Bengoechea is Director of the Wellcome-Wolfson Instituite for Experimental Medicine at Queen’s, one of the three leading research centres which make up the University’s Global Research Institute for Health Sciences. His laboratory has uncovered the foundation for new therapy with the potential to save thousands of lives in the UK. The long-term goal of the laboratory is to decipher the network of interactions between pathogenic bacteria and various cell types contributing to the onset of the innate immunity responses by applying a multidisciplinary approach interfacing immunology, cell biology, and molecular microbiology.