Category: Academy fellows

Mr Michael Sharkey

Overview Cohort: 7PhD Start date: October 2023 I graduated from The University of Manchester in 2009 with a degree in MEng Mechanical Engineering and initially worked in industrial engineering. In 2012, I joined the NHS Scientist Training Programme, specialising in...

Mr David Edwards

Overview Cohort: 6PhD Start Date: August 2022 After gaining experience in a range of hospital dentistry specialities and primary care, David joined the Royal Army Dental Corps where he served in a number of UK and overseas assignments, including Kenya, Afghanistan and...

Dr Alexander Blakes

Overview Cohort: 6PhD Start Date: October 2022 I am a Paediatrics trainee interested in the genetic basis of developmental disorders. I graduated from the University of Oxford in 2017 and moved to Southampton for an Academic Foundation Programme in Clinical Genetics....

Dr Stephanie Harrison

Overview Cohort: 6PhD Start date: August 2022 University of Leeds Medical School (2011-17): Versus Arthritis Vacation Scholarship (2013). Project: Using chemokine/lymphocyte subsets to predict methotrexate response in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) Wolfson Intercalated...

Dr Sophie T Williams

Overview Cohort: 7Start date: October 2023 My training has made me ideally placed to work at the intersection of physical and biological sciences and clinical practice. I graduated from the Imperial College London School of Medicine accelerated Graduate Entry Course...

Ms Sarah Edney

Overview Cohort: 6PhD start date: October 2022 I am a speech and language therapist and have specialised in neonatology and paediatric feeding for the past ten years. On moving from an adult to a neonatal caseload, I discovered significant gaps in the therapy-focused...

Dr Nik Tzoumas

OverviewCohort: 7PhD start date: August 2023I am a Specialty Registrar in Ophthalmology, PhD candidate in Genomic Medicine, and holder of a Wellcome 4Ward North Fellowship at the National Renal and Complement Therapeutics Centre (NRCTC) in Newcastle.I graduated in...

Dr Jonathan Batty

OverviewCohort: 6PhD start date: August 2022I have been committed to pursuing a combined clinical and academic career since early in medical school.As a second-year undergraduate at the University of Leeds, I was awarded an EXSEL Scholarship (sponsored by Heart...

Dr Ben Lindsey

OverviewCohort: 7PhD start date: October 2023I went to medical school at Imperial College London where I intercalated in Medical Sciences and Global Health.After completing foundation training I studied for an MSc in Infectious Disease Immunology at the London School...

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...