Staff
Academic staff
Staff |
Research Interests | |
| Dr Katrina Bicknell |  |
Cardiomyocyte growth, forkhead transcription factors, stem cells and repair. |
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Cardiovascular research, Myocyte mechanosensing, Circadian proteins | |
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Pro-Vice Chancellor |
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Cardiovascular research, Myocardial regeneration |
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Molecular Bacteriology, Host-pathogen interactions, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes | |
| Dr Sandrine Claus | ||
| Professor Angela Clerk |  |
Cardiac myocyte signalling and gene expression |
| Dr Danny Commane | ||
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Cell signalling, Nitric oxide, Cell Migration, Apoptosis | |
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Cell signalling, PI-3 kinase signalling, Proteomics & kinase signalling, GSK-3 & Wnt signalling in platelets | |
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Director |
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Cardiovascular research, Cell Biology, Platelets, Haemostasis, Thrombosis |
| Professor Peter Grindrod |  |
Mathematical biology, systems biology and applications of mathematics. |
| Dr Orla Kennedy |  |
Public health nutrition, nutrition in the older consumer, dietary interventions, food choice issues and sensory evaluation. |
| Dr Gunter Kuhnle | ||
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Cardiovascular research, Atherosclerosis, Oxidised Low Density Lipoprotein | |
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Deputy Director |
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Nutritional influences, nutigenetics and nutrigenomics on metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease risk |
| Dr Liam McGuffin |  |
Bioinformatics, Molecular Systems Biology, Prediction of protein structures, functions and interactions |
| Dr Alister McNeish |  |
Cerebral arteries, nitric oxide, Endothelium, smooth muscle, endothelium derived hyperpolarizing factor, electrophysiology |
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Developmental Biology, Skeletal muscle development, Adult skeletal muscle function, Embryonic skeletal muscle growth | |
| Professor Ian Rowland |  |
Diet and cancer, anti-cancer components of plants, health benefits of probiotics and prebiotics, functional foods, health claims |
| Dr Jeremy Spencer |  |
Effects of flavonoids of memory, learning and neuro-cognitive performance, dietary polyphenolics. |
| Dr Jonathan Swann | ||
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Systems biology, Mathematical modelling | |
| Dr Kim Watson |  |
Metabolic enzymes, ABC transporters, Protein crystallography, Computational Biology |
| Professor Christine Williams |  |
Dietary fats in human health, cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance. Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise |
| Professor Parveen Yaqoob |  |
Nutrition and immunity and inflammation, dietary fatty acids and immune cell function and cardiovascular disease, pre- and probiotics and immune function |