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Professor Tracey Newman

Professor Tracey Newman

Professor

Research interests

  • The demographic of populations worldwide is changing. People are living longer but with more years with affected by disability in the last two decades of life. The societal and economic consequences of this change are not being well managed. There is a lag in the development of health interventions and a need for rapid learning for future health and infrastructure planning. Typically, people in poorer economic situations are disproportionately affected by disability in later life.
  • Hearing loss and dementia: I lead multidisciplinary research focussed on hearing loss, the use of cochlear implants to restore hearing in otherwise deaf people and the interaction between hearing loss and dementia.
  • My focus is understanding cellular mechanisms in these conditions and also how the learning and methodologies used to investigate this can be applied across discipline boundaries. I am driving the implementation of data science methodologies for improved management of people who hear with cochlear implants and for the identification of early indicators of cognitive decline. I am championing the engagement of patients in research and as ambassadors to increase awareness of healthcare interventions amongst hard to reach and marginalised communities.

More research

Accepting applications from PhD students.

Connect with Tracey

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +000

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Research Publications Teaching External roles and responsibilities Biography
Research Publications Teaching External roles and responsibilities Biography

Research

Research groups

Research interests

  • The demographic of populations worldwide is changing. People are living longer but with more years with affected by disability in the last two decades of life. The societal and economic consequences of this change are not being well managed. There is a lag in the development of health interventions and a need for rapid learning for future health and infrastructure planning. Typically, people in poorer economic situations are disproportionately affected by disability in later life.
  • Hearing loss and dementia: I lead multidisciplinary research focussed on hearing loss, the use of cochlear implants to restore hearing in otherwise deaf people and the interaction between hearing loss and dementia.
  • My focus is understanding cellular mechanisms in these conditions and also how the learning and methodologies used to investigate this can be applied across discipline boundaries. I am driving the implementation of data science methodologies for improved management of people who hear with cochlear implants and for the identification of early indicators of cognitive decline. I am championing the engagement of patients in research and as ambassadors to increase awareness of healthcare interventions amongst hard to reach and marginalised communities.
  • Nanomedicine: Drug efficacy is affected by the way the drug is delivered to its site of action. Packaging, at the nanoscale, within biocompatible polymers can increase efficacy, reduce off-target effects and enable delivery across biological barriers such as within the inner ear.
  • My research in collaboration with Nick Evans (Medicine), Seung Lee (Chemistry) and Adam Wheelan (DSTL) is to determine whether exisiting antimicrobials, repackaged within polymersomes, show improved efficacy against hard to treat persistent bacterial infections.

Research projects

Active projects

Cochlear implants and Inner Ear Inflammation

Completed projects

Mathematical modelling of the electric potential from cochlear implants for improved diagnosis of poor outcomes
Sponsor: EPSRC
Just Like Me? Can you hear me?
Dr T. Newman: Gerald Kerkut PhD Studentship GKT2011/01
Sponsor: Gerald Kerkut Charitable Trust
Improving patient outcomes with cochlear implants through the application of data science (AudiLog)
Listening to local communities to understand how to reduce inequities and barriers to risk reduction for better brain health.
Sponsor: Alzheimers Research UK
Listening to local communities to understand how to reduce inequities and barriers to risk reduction for better brain health.
Prof Hugh Perry MRC In-Vitro Multi-Chamber
Sponsor: Medical Research Council
Prof Hugh Perry MRC Micro Electronics SoBS
Sponsor: Medical Research Council
Cheong:Collaborative research with University of Malaya
Evans S02 Stem-cell specific targeting of Wnt nanoparticles for tissue repair and regeneration
Sponsor: Wessex Medical Research
Y Cheong Infertility Research Trust Enhanced detection of endometriosis using targeted nanoparticles
Sponsor: The Infertility Research Trust
CfBS - Polymersome Nanoparticale Mediated Delivery of GSK3B Inhibitors Alzheimers Disease - Hugh Perry - Wessex Medical Researc
Sponsor: Wessex Medical Research
Guy Poppy - Leverhulme - "Bees, pollution and flowers"
Sponsor: Leverhulme Trust
Studentship for Andrew Causon - Inflammatory status as a predictor of hearing loss
Sponsor: Med-El Elektromedizinische Gerate Gesellschaft m.b.H.
SO-Together Health: Working together within Southampton for better hearing and brain health
Making research relevant. Can awareness of routes to better brain health be increased through dialogue with underserved communities?
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