Institute of Developmental Sciences

Our people

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Dr Iman Nazari

Senior Research Assistant
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Dr Jade Forster

Research Fellow
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Dr James Ashton

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Paediatrics
  • Big Data

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor James Batchelor

Professorial Fellow Enterprise

Research interests

  • Public Health / Health Systems
  • Clinical Research Infastrcuture
  • Clinical Informatics / Health Infromatics

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Dr Jane Cleal PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Areas of Scientific Expertise:
  • Reproductive Cell Biology – Fundamental mechanisms of cell biology in placenta and endometriu…

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Dr Jane Gibson

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Bioinformatics
  • Genomics
  • Cancer sciences
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Dr Jane Willoughby

Senior Research Fellow
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Professor Janis Baird

Professor of Public Health&Epidemiology

Research interests

  • NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)  Understanding the food choices of adolesce…
  • NIHR Policy Research Programme (PRP) Evaluation and co-creation to optimise use and benefits …
  • NIHR Public Health Research Programme (PHR)  Nudging healthier dietary habits: evaluation of …
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Professor Jaswinder Sethi BSc DPhil FRSB

Professor of Immunometabolism

Research interests

  • Immunometabolism
  • Obesity
  • Metabolic diseases

Accepting applications from PhD students

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