Brigitta Stockinger, FMedSci, FRS, is a molecular immunologist in the Francis Crick Institute in London.
Stockinger's lab focus on understanding how certain immune cells, called T cells, develop and function as well as investigating how diet and other environmental factors can affect the way the immune system works.
She then did postdoctoral studies in London, Cambridge and at the Cancer Research Institute in Heidelberg.
Her nomination reads: Brigitta Stockinger has contributed insights regulation and maintenance of peripheral T cell immune responses.
Stockinger identified the Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) as connector between the immune system and environmental stimuli, showing that it shapes the functional differentiation of Th17 effector cells.