Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Tuberculosis, Sarcoidosis and other granulomatous disease
- Spatial and single cell transcriptomics
- Advanced cell culture
Current research
As a translational clinical researcher, I am pursuing the latest emerging -omic techniques to understand lung disease and translate to finding therapeutic host targets.
Publications
Teaching
Deputy Year 2 Lead for BM4
Lecturing and tutoring for BM5/EU
Biography
I am an Associate Professor and Consultant in Respiratory medicine, having completed my PhD in 2021, and NIHR Clinical Lectureship and Certificate of Completion of Training in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine in 2022. My PhD allowed me to develop my skills in bioinformatics and advanced cell culture working with M.tuberculosis. The main output used clinical samples from untreated tuberculosis and sarcoidosis patients to study the early events in disease development and identified critical pathways. In parallel, I performed containment level 3 work using 3-dimensional cell culture to identify a cellular model with the most similar gene signature to tuberculosis patient samples. Integrating both transcriptomic outputs identified potential new new host-directed therapeutic targets.
Prizes
- Rosetrees Trust Research Fellowship (2016)
- Scadding-Morriston Davies Joint Fellowship in Respiratory Medicine (2017)
- Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund Scholarship (2022)
- British Lung Foundation-Asthma UK Early Career Investigator Award (2021)
- American Thoracic Society Science and Innovation Center Award (2020)
- American Thoracic Society Abstract Scholarship (2020)
- Academy of Medical Sciences Starter Grant for Clinical Lecturers (2022)
- Rosetrees Trust continuation award (2022)
- Academy of Medical Sciences SUSTAIN programme (2023)
- Rosetrees Trust Research Fellowship (2016)
- Scadding-Morriston Davies Joint Fellowship in Respiratory Medicine (2017)
- Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund Scholarship (2022)
- British Lung Foundation-Asthma UK Early Career Investigator Award (2021)
- American Thoracic Society Science and Innovation Center Award (2020)
- American Thoracic Society Abstract Scholarship (2020)
- Academy of Medical Sciences Starter Grant for Clinical Lecturers (2022)
- Rosetrees Trust continuation award (2022)
- Academy of Medical Sciences SUSTAIN programme (2023)