Diagram represents a network of applications by Institute for Life Sciences Members for collaborative projects.
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Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary collaborative network which is made up of over 430 academic members from across all the University’s faculties.

Interested in joining us? Please see details about current academic recruitment opportunities here.

Professor Jon Dawson

Prof Fellow of Regenerative Medicine
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Professor Jonathan Essex

Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Tel: +44 23 8059 2794

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Dr Jonathan Swann

Professor of Biomolecular Medicine

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Dr Jonathan West

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Time-Resolved Structural Biology The emergence of serial crystallography brings many exciting possibilities for structural biology but also brings the challenge of preparing many thousands of sub-micron crystals. To address this, we are working with Ivo Tews and Allen Orville to develop high throughput droplet microfluidic systems. Here volumetric confinement of the phase diagram defines growth limits for producing monodisperse protein crystals. Beyond this, the microfluidic processors can be interfaced with the beam line to enable dynamic structural biology.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3460

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Dr Jorn Cheney

Lecturer in Natural Sciences

Research interests

  • Locomotion
  • Wing morphing
  • Tissues and tissue mechanics

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Jorn Lakowski

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Retinal Disease Modelling
  • Retinal Development
  • Drug Screening

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: [email protected]

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Professor Judith Holloway BSc (Hons), PhD, PGCert, PFHEA, NTF

Professorial Fellow in Allergy

Research interests

  • HACASE: A simple effective educational model for session design: Prof Holloway has designed an educational model for teaching which is applicable across any teaching activity. Current research activity is evaluating its effectiveness in clinical teaching including allergy to different learners from patients to undergraduates and multi-professional healthcare professionals.
  • MSc Allergy education: Prof Holloway's team explore innovations and the effectiveness of teaching on the MSc Allergy, to disseminate their experiences for the benefit of other courses around the University and more widely. 
  • Allergy bitesize education (short e-courses for CPD): Prof Holloway has led the development of short e-courses, including an Anaphylaxis Toolkit which provide Gain and Train learning for healthcare professionals on how to effectively teach patients this important topic.
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Email: [email protected]

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Professor Juerg Matter

Professor of Geoengineering&Carbon Manag
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Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3042

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Professor Kai Yang

Professor

Research interests

  • Electronic textile materials and manufacturing
  • Wearable medical devices (e.g. stroke rehabilitation, pain management)
  • Digital healthcare

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Kate Farrahi

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • the intersection of machine learning and digital health
  • developing machine learning methods for human sensing using vision- and wearable-based technologies

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Kate

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 2722

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