Leading experts in the Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
The School of Biological Sciences is home to many world-renowned experts in biomedical sciences and biomedical engineering.
Academic staff
| Name | Position and responsibilities | Research interests |
| Professor Simon Andrews | Research Division Leader, Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering |
Molecular Bacteriology, Iron regulation and virulence, Functional genomics in E.Coli Microbiology |
| Dr Andrew Bicknell |
Deputy Director of Teaching and Learning Senior Tutor |
Endocrinology, Adrenal gland, Pituitary, Stress axis Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Dr Sam Boateng | Lecturer in Biomedical Science |
Cardiovascular research, Myocyte mechanosensing, Circadian proteins Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Dr John Bowen | Associate Professor | Development of technology for medical diagnosis, biomolecular spectroscopy, terahertz imaging & spectroscopy, biophotonics, cultural heritage applications
Biomedical Engineering |
| Professor Gavin Brooks | Pro-Vice Chancellor |
Cardiovascular research, Myocardial regeneration Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Dr Simon Clarke |
Head of Division, Biomedical Sciences & Biomedical Engineering Director of Internationalisation |
Molecular Bacteriology, Host-pathogen interactions, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes Microbiology |
| Professor Angela Clerk | Professor of Biomedical Sciences |
Cardiac myocyte biology, heart failure, intracellular signalling, protein kinases, apoptosis and cell death, hypertrophy Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Dr Philip Dash |
Deputy Head of School, Director of Teaching & Learning |
Cell signalling, Cell Migration, Nitric oxide, Apoptosis Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Dr Evangelos Delivopoulos | Lecturer in Systems Engineering and Neuroscience Interfaces |
Stem cell neuralization, neural cultures on MEAs, flexible neural implants, regulation of neural activity by astrocytes Biomedical Engineering |
| Dr Keith Foster | Associate Professor in Translational Medicine |
Developing Gene, Cell and Pharmaceutical Medicines Platform Technologies for Medicine Delivery Muscular Dystrophies and Metabolic Diseases Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Dr Mike Fry | Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences |
Cell signalling, PI-3 kinase signalling, Proteomics & kinase signalling, GSK-3 & Wnt signalling in platelets Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Professor Jon Gibbins | Director of ICMR |
Cardiovascular research, Cell Biology, Platelets, Haemostasis, Thrombosis Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Dr Soon Gweon |
Bioinformatics Biomedical Engineering | |
| Dr Sillas Hadjiloucas | Lecturer | Biomedical Engineering |
| Professor William Harwin | Professor of Interactive & Human Systems |
The mathematics and engineering of interacting systems. Haptic interactions, rehabilitation robotics, wearable sensors and dynamic models of animals and cells. Haptics in skills training and education, design and stability of exoskeletons, wearable sensors for long term analysis of health, reach and grasps in humans, and mechanodynamics in cells. Biomedical Engineering |
| Dr Yoshikatsu Hayashi | Lecturer | Biomedical Engineering |
| Professor William Holderbaum | Professor in Mathematics and Engineering |
Mathematics and Engineering Biomedical Engineering |
| Dr Craig Hughes | Lecturer in Cardiovascular Biology |
Cardiovascular research, Cell Biology, Platelets, Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Signal transduction Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Dr Faustina Hwang | Director of Postgraduate Researchers |
Human computer interaction, accessible computing, digital health, haptics Biomedical Engineering |
| Professor Robert Jackson | Head of School |
Molecular Microbiology, Plant Pathology, Pseudomonas biology, Insect Microbiology and Evolutionary biology Microbiology |
| Dr Chris Jones | Director of Postdoctoral Researchers |
Cardiovascular research. Inter-individual variation in platelet signalling, activation, and impact on haemostasis and thrombosis Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Professor Ian Jones | Professor of Virology |
Molecular Virology, Baculovirus, Vaccine development, expression technology Microbiology |
| Dr Eva Kevei | Lecturer in Cell Biology |
The physiological role of ubiquitylation dependent signaling pathways in ageing Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Professor Phil Knight | Professor |
Reproductive biology, Endocrinology, Ovarian follicular development, Ovulation, Early embryo development Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Dr David Leake | Associate Professor |
Reproductive biology, Endocrinology, Ovarian follicular development, Ovulation, Early embryo development Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Professor Jian-mei Li | Professor of Cardiovascular Biology |
Cardiovascular research Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Dr Sheila MacIntyre | Programme advisor for Microbiology |
Molecular Bacteriology, Protein secretion, Pili assembly, Fish pathogens Microbiology |
| Professor Rachel McCrindle | Director of Student Experience |
Computer & Human Interaction Biomedical Engineering |
| Dr Liam McGuffin | Director of Impact and Enterprise |
Bioinformatics, Prediction of protein structures, functions and interactions, Protein folding, Mutations and disease, Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Professor Slawomir Nasuto |
Deputy Research Division Leader, Biomedical Sciences & Biomedical Engineering |
Neuroengineering, Neurorehabilitation, Brain-computer interfaces, Biomedical Signal Processing, Cell cultures, Closed-loop neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience Complex Systems, Networks Science, Nonlinear dynamics Biomedical Engineering |
| Professor Ketan Patel | Professor | Developmental Biology, Skeletal muscle development.
Adult skeletal muscle function, Embryonic skeletal muscle growth. Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Dr Alice Pollitt | Lecturer in Cardiovascular Biology |
Cell-cell communication between platelets and non-hematopoietic cells. Spatial and temporal organisation of the cell surface. Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
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Professor Declan Schroeder |
Environmental Microbiology (virology) Biomedical Sciences | |
| Dr Dyan Sellayah | Lecturer in Cellular & Organismal Metabolism |
Obesity research Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Professor Simon Sherratt |
Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing Director of Staff Teaching Development |
Wearable smart technology for use in the management of falls in the home from people with Parkinson's disease, and for use in human emotion prediction Biomedical Engineering |
| Dr Nandini Vasudevan | Director of Outreach |
Neuroendocrinology, Molecular Endocrinology, hormone signalling, social behaviours in rodents, Regulation of anxiety and memory, animal behaviour Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Dr Kim Watson | Associate Professor in Structural Biology |
Structural & Computational Biology, Chlamydia biology, Infection & Immunity, Diabetes & Obesity, Metabolic Enzymes Molecular & Cellular Medicine |
| Professor Ying Zheng | Professor in Systems Engineering and Neuroscience |
Electrophysiology, Balance of neural excitation and inhibition, Mathematical modelling of field potential and EEG, Brain and Diet, the Aging Brain Biomedical Engineering |
Teaching fellows/associates/assistants
| Name | Responsibilities and interests | Contact |
| Dr Natasha Barrett | Teaching Fellow | Biomedical Science |
| Dr Lizzy Lander | Teaching Fellow | Biomedical Science |
| Dr Jay (Geraldine) Mulley | Teaching Fellow |
Microbiology; Microbe-host interactions; Microbial genetics; Vaccine development Biomedical Science |
| Sophie Nock |
Graduate Teaching Assistant (PhD Studentships) |
Biomedical Science |
| Ana Wass | Teaching Associate | Biomedical Science |
Postdoctorate Research Fellows/associates/assistants
| Name | Position | Research interests |
| Dr Feroz Ahmad | Research Associate | |
| Dr Monica Armengol | Research Assistant | Biomedical Engineering, Biomechanical modelling, Spinal Cord Injury |
| Dr Alex Bye | Research Associate | |
| 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 Wouter Eilers | Research Fellow | |
| Dr Helen Foster | Senior Research Officer | Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy |
| Dr Stephen Fuller | Research Associate | |
| Dr Adam Gadd | Research Associate | Synthesis and conjugation of therapeutic macromolecules |
| Dr Alejandro Giraldo | Research Fellow | |
| Dr Lisa Holbrook | Research Associate | |
| Dr Balazs Janko | Research Assistant | Passive wireless sensors |
| Dr Shirley Keeton | Research Associate | Evolution of Cancer Metastasis, Cell migration, 3D tissue culture |
| Dr Rachel King | Research Associate | Wireless Sensing |
| Dr Neline Kriek | Research Assistant | Platelets, Cell Signalling, Systems Biology |
| 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 Sinead Lyons | Research Associate | |
| Dr Francoise Mazet | Research Associate | Cell Signalling, System Biology, Evolution, Platelets |
| Dr Merce Miranda | Research Assistant | Lipid metabolism in obesity and type 2 diabetes |
| Dr Jo Mitchell | Research Associate | |
| 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 Assistant | |
| Dr Rekha Rana | Research Associate | |
| Dr Malarvizhi Ramesh | Research Fellow | |
| Dr Junyuan Ren | Research Fellow | |
| Dr Kerry Rostron | Research Associate | |
| Dr Arvind Salunkhe | Research Associate | Impact of Dietary-Iron on Human Gut Microbiota |
| Dr Parvathy Sasikumar | Research Associate | |
| Dr Ozan Tokatli | Research Associate (Leverhulme) |
Haptics, Physical Human Robot Interaction, Robotics |
| Dr Amanda Unsworth | Research Associate | |
| Dr Ioannis Dimitrios Zoulias | Research Assistant | Brain-Computer Interfaces, Control Systems, Virtual Reality Biomedical Engineering |
Emeritus and Visiting Professors
| Name | Information |
| Professor Dominic Behan | Visiting Professor |
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Oncology Biomedical Sciences | |
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Professor Philip Lowry (Emeritus) |
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| Professor Alastair D Reith | Visiting Professor |
| Professor Peter Sugden (Emeritus) |