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...

Dr Patrick Walsh

OverviewI qualified from the University of Leicester having undertaken an intercalated BSc in Genetics.Following this, I moved to Bristol to take up an academic foundation program post. I ultimately moved to Newcastle in 2015 to start as an NIHR academic clinical...

Dr Richard Fu

OverviewRichard is a Wellcome 4ward North Clinical PhD Fellow and specialty registrar in neurosurgery.Originally from Singapore, he obtained his medical degree from the University of Bristol.After gaining membership to the Royal College of Surgeons of England he...

Dr Krit Dwivedi

OverviewI graduated from University of Nottingham in 2015 with a BMBS and BMedSci (Hons).Keen to develop my academic interest in Radiology, I moved to Sheffield for the Academic Foundation Programme and designed a study which won the Editor's Choice award for the...

Dr David Lewis-Smith

OverviewDr David Lewis-Smith's PhD fellowship focusses on the computational analysis of epilepsy phenotypes in Epi25 (> 12,000 individuals with epilepsy and whole exome data) and the UK Biobank.He aims to discover clinical and genetic biomarkers that will improve...

Dr Mary Booth

Cohort: 4PhD start date: September 2020OverviewI graduated from the University of Leeds School of Medicine with honours in 2015.My interest in academic medicine began during my second year when I was awarded an EXSEL@Leeds Research Scholarship. As an EXSEL Scholar, I...

Dr James Stefaniak

Overview4ward North PhD Fellowship: Neural compensatory mechanisms that underpin retention and recovery of language function post-stroke.Post-stroke aphasia is of clinical importance because stroke is highly prevalent, with an estimated 25.7 million occurring...

Dr Bayanne Olabi

OverviewCohort: 4PhD start date: October 2020My proposed research aims to dissect the mechanisms driving inflammatory skin diseases using spatial genomics methods in order to improve diagnosis, molecular classification and guide treatment strategies.Spatial genomics...

Dr Charles Earnshaw

OverviewCohort: 4PhD start date: October 2020Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. With more than 16,000 cases annually, it is the fifth most common cancer in the UK.Despite recent breakthroughs with treatments that harness the anti-tumour function of the...

Dr Hannah Crane

OverviewCohort: 4PhD Start Date: 1 September 2020I graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2014 and my interest in research was initially sparked while undertaking a research project during an intercalated BMedSci.I subsequently completed Dental Foundation...