The Research Team Centre for Rheumatology

The group focuses its interests on B cell depletion (an idea introduced (with the now retired Professor Jo Edwards) approximately 10 years ago for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis), exploring more precisely how the technique works and trying to explain the marked variation in response between different patients.  

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust,Surrey, UK
Dr. Bansal trained in immunology and allergy from 1989 to 1993 at St. Mary's Hospital in Manchester and at Hope Hospital in Salford. From here he spent five years (1993-1997) as Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Clinical Immunology in the Department of Medicine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. From 1997 to the present date Dr. Bansal has worked as a Consultant in Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology at Epsom and St Helier University Hospital. Dr Bansal's key interests lie in allergy, autoimmunity, ME/CFS and immunodeficiency. Dr Bansal is also involved in the IiME funded gut microbiota study at IFR/UEA, and a neural antigen study on ME at IFR/Oxford.