Head of School: Professor Phil Dash
Academic staff
| Name | Position | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Simon Andrews | Professor | Molecular bacteriology, iron regulation and virulence, functional genomics in E. coli, impact of iron and zinc on the gut microbiota |
| Dr Natasha Barrett | Lecturer in Anatomy and Physiology | Use of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) in biological sciences and healthcare education |
| Dr Andrew Bicknell |
School Director of Teaching and Learning | Endocrinology, adrenal gland, pituitary, stress axis |
| Dr Sam Boateng |
Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences |
Cardiovascular research, myocyte mechanosensing, circadian proteins |
| Dr Susanna Cogo | Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences |
Neuroscience, neurodegeneration, cellular and in vivo modelling of complex, age-related genetic diseases |
| Dr Simon Clarke | Head of Division, Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering | Molecular bacteriology, host-pathogen interactions, staphylococcus aureus, streptococcus pyogenes |
| Professor Angela Clerk | Professor of Biomedical Sciences | Cardiac myocyte biology, heart failure, intracellular signalling, protein kinases, apoptosis and cell death, hypertrophy |
| Dr William Cross | Lecturer in Cancer Biology | Bioinformatics, genetics, medical genetics, rare malignancies and cancer evolution |
| Professor Phil Dash | Head of School |
Cancer biology, metastasis, cell biology, developing gene, cell and pharmaceutical medicines |
| Dr Michael Fry | Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences |
Systems biology of cell signalling in platelets and in cancer using proteomic data. Phosphoinositide 3-kinase and protein kinase signalling |
| Professor Jon Gibbins | Director of ICMR |
Cardiovascular research, cell biology, platelets, haemostasis, thrombosis |
| Dr Craig Hughes |
Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Biology Exams Officer Admissions Tutor for BSc Biomedical Sciences |
Cardiovascular research, cell biology, platelets, thrombosis and haemostasis, signal transduction |
| Dr Christopher Jones |
Associate Professor in Thrombosis and Haemostasis Co-Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing Research Division Lead |
Cardiovascular research. Inter-individual variation in platelet signalling, activation, and impact on haemostasis and thrombosis |
| Professor Ian Jones | Professor of Virology | Molecular virology, baculovirus, vaccine development, expression technology |
| Dr Eva Kevei |
Associate Professor in Cell Biology Director of Internationalisation Programme Director for BSc Biomedical Sciences School Director of Postgraduate Researchers |
Genetic models of Parkinson’s disease; the physiological role of ubiquitylation dependent signalling pathways in ageing; the impact of microplastics on animal and human health |
| Professor Phil Knight | Professor | Reproductive biology, Endocrinology, Ovarian follicular development, Ovulation, Early embryo development |
| Professor David Leake | Professor in Biochemistry of Atherosclerosis | Atherosclerosis, Oxidation of low density lipoprotein in lysosomes, Antioxidants and coronary heart disease |
| Dr Duncan McMillan |
Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences Admissions Tutor for BEng Biomedical Engineering
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Regulation and adaptation in cell metabolism (Mitochondrial and bacterial systems), Proton/electron transport, Lipid-membrane protein interactions, Biomimetic membrane, and bioelectrochemical technologies, Biomineralization, Enzymology. |
| Dr Francoise Mazet |
Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences Admissions Tutor for BSc Biochemistry |
System biology of cell signalling, molecular evolution and development, comparative and evolutionary physiology |
| Professor Liam McGuffin | Director of Impact and Enterprise | Bioinformatics, prediction of protein structures, functions and interactions, protein folding, mutations and disease, machine learning, artificial intelligence |
| Dr Geraldine (Jay) Mulley |
Lecturer Admissions Tutor and Programme Director for BSc Microbiology |
Microbiology, microbe-host interactions, microbial genetics, vaccine development |
| Professor Ketan Patel | Professor | Developmental biology, skeletal muscle development, adult skeletal muscle function, embryonic skeletal muscle growth. |
| Dr Alice Pollitt |
Director of Postdoctoral Researchers Programme Director for BSc Biochemistry |
Cell-cell communication between platelets and non-hematopoietic cells. Spatial and temporal organisation of the cell surface |
| Professor Declan Schroeder | Environmental Microbiology (virology) | |
| Dr Dyan Sellayah |
School Director for Outreach School Director for Academic Tutoring |
Obesity research, medical science |
| Dr Connor Sharp | Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences | Mechanisms bacteria use to compete with each other, and how we can use these mechanisms to prevent or treat infection. |
| Dr Aidan Taylor | Lecturer in Microbiology | Molecular microbiology of Campylobacter jejuni. Physiology, biochemistry, transcriptomics |
| Dr Lindsey Thompson | Lecturer, Director of Student Experience | Biomedical Sciences, medical science |
| Professor Kim Watson | Professor in Structural Biochemistry | Structural and computational biology, protein engineering, enzymes for industry, bile acid metabolism, gut-liver-brain axis and health |
| Dr Nandini Vasedevan | Research Division Leader, Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering |
Neuroendocrinology, hormone signalling to drive social behaviours, endocrine regulation of anxiety and memory, oscillations in biology |
Postdoctoral research fellows, associates and assistants
| Name | Position | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
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Dr Recep Adiyaman |
Research Associate | Bioinformatics, protein structure prediction, protein-ligand interactions, MD simulations of Protein 3D structures |
| Dr Viridiana Alcantara-Alonso | Research Associate | Molecular mechanisms of atherosclerosis development |
| Dr Simone Culurgioni | Research Assistant | Analysis of the bacterial regulatory mechanisms to sense and detoxify nitric oxide (NO) |
| Dr Joanne Dunster | Research Associate | Utilising a range of mathematical, computational and statistical techniques to develop and analyse theoretical models that describe problems in the life sciences and medicine |
| Dr Helen Foster | Senior Research Officer | Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy |
| Dr Sophie Jegouic | Research Associate | Virology, molecular biology, cellular biology, microfluidics, diagnostics |
| Dr Shirley Keeton | Research Associate | Evolution of cancer metastasis, cell migration, 3D tissue culture |
| Dr Neline Kriek | Research Assistant | Platelets, cell signalling, systems biology |
| Dr Dannielle Kydd-Sinclair | Research Associate | The structure and function of nuclear receptors and their underlying role in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease |
| Dr Mhairi Laird | Research Associate | |
| Dr Silvia Loureiro | Research Associate | Molecular virology, vaccine development for infectious diseases, baculovirus, infuenza and foot-and-mouth disease viruses |
| Dr Merce Miranda | Research Assistant | Lipid metabolism in obesity and type 2 diabetes |
| Dr Leonardo Moraes | Research Fellow | |
| Dr Andrea Monteagudo | Research Associate | Impact of Dietary-Iron on Human Gut Microbiota |
| Dr Nicoletta Nicolaou | Research Assistant | |
| Dr Deepa Paliwal | Research Associate | |
| Dr Rekha Rana | Research Associate | |
| Dr Malarvizhi Ramesh | Research Fellow | |
| Dr Junyuan Ren | Research Fellow | |
| Dr Bajuna Salehe | Research Associate | |
| Dr Arvind Salunkhe | Research Associate | Impact of dietary-iron on human gut microbiota |
| Dr Parvathy Sasikumar | Research Associate | |
| Dr Kirk Taylor | Research Associate | Biochemical, biophysical, cell isolation and culture, functional, imaging, in vivo and molecular assays |
Emeritus and visiting professors
| Name | Position | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Dominic Behan | Visiting Professor | |
| Professor Emeritus Philippa Darbre | Oncology, biomedical sciences | |
| Professor Philip Lowry (Emeritus) | ||
| Professor Peter J Parker | Visiting Professor | |
| Professor Alastair D Reith | Visiting Professor | |
| Professor Peter Sugden (Emeritus) |
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