Category: Newcastle

Professor Tracy Palmer

Email: tracy.palmer@ncl.ac.ukResearch profile and key clinical specialtiesMy group are interested in the mechanisms bacteria use to compete with one another during colonisation of the body.We have focused on the Type VII protein secretion system (T7SS), showing...

Professor Tim Griffiths

Email: tim.griffiths@ncl.ac.ukResearch profile and key clinical specialtiesMy research defines bases for auditory scene analysis including working memory for sounds and separating acoustic figures from noisy background. This is a key deficit in 50% of the population...

Professor Sophie Hambleton

Email: Sophie.hambleton@ncl.ac.ukResearch profile and key clinical specialtiesI trained in clinical paediatrics and in basic immunology, with a focus on inborn errors of the immune system.Since 2008, I have been a consultant on the immunology and infectious diseases...

Professor Sir Doug Turnbull

Email: doug.turnbull@ncl.ac.ukResearch profile and key clinical specialtiesProfessor Doug Turnbull's areas of expertise are mitochondrial disease and neurology.The Institute of Neuroscience's areas of research span from the basic biology of neurons to the abnormal...

Professor Ruth Plummer

Email: Ruth.plummer@newcastle.ac.ukResearch profile and key clinical specialtiesI am a consultant medical oncologist treating melanoma patients and also director of the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre with responsibility for a busy early phase trials...

Professor Rita Horvath

Email: rita.horvath@ncl.ac.ukResearch profile and key clinical specialtiesI started my research career in 1995 on the clinical characterisation of mitochondrial diseases.In 2000-2007 my research was based on a diagnostic service in Munich, and I focused on identifying...

Professor Muzlifah Haniffa

Email: m.a.haniffa@ncl.ac.ukResearch profile and key clinical specialtiesProfessor Muzlifah Haniffa is a dermatologist with a research interest in immunology.Her research programme is focused on understanding the functional heterogeneity of human mononuclear...

Professor Matthias Trost

Email: matthias.trost@ncl.ac.ukResearch profile and key clinical specialtiesMy group utilises primarily proteomics (but also many other techniques) to answer important biological and medical questions.Our primary biological research interests are in innate immunity...

Professor Lynn Rochester

Email: Lynn.Rochester@ncl.ac.ukResearch profile and key clinical specialtiesLynn is Professor of Human Movement Science; honorary consultant physiotherapist; and holds an NIHR Senior Investigators Award.She leads the Brain and Movement Research Group, a...

Professor Louise Robinson

Email: a.l.robinson@ncl.ac.ukResearch profile and key clinical specialtiesProfessor Robinson leads the Primary Care Group of the Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN), a national network of researchers. She is also a member of the...