The table below details the Senior Supervisors currently available to supervise projects on the GW4-CAT HP Programme.
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| Name | Position | Email Address | Research Area | ORCID ID |
| Dr Jennifer Allen | Reader (Research Director), Department of Psychology Director of the SHINE research lab Reader and Director of Research on the DClinPsy programme. | ja980@bath.ac.uk | Child emotional and behavioural disorders. Understanding the role of environmental factors in risk pathways to child psychopathology. | 0000-0003-3566-3747 |
| Prof Chris Eccleston | Innovation in pain management Research, development and consultancy in pain and rehabilitation | C.Eccleston@bath.ac.uk | Pain management and rehabilitation | 0000-0003-0698-1543 |
| Prof Pedro Estrela | Director of Centre for Bioengineering & Biomedical technologies (CBio) | P.Estrela@bath.ac.uk | Biosensors and Lab-on-Chip devices for detection of biomarkers and point-of-care testing | 0000-0001-6956-1146 |
| Prof Richie Gill | Co-Vice Chair of Centre for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) Innovation in musculoskeletal (MSK) treatment | R.Gill@bath.ac.uk | Orthopaedic (MSK) engineering hip and knee joint function, disease and treatment | 0000-0002-7740-2062 |
| Dr Fiona Gillison | Head of Department for Health Centre for Motivation and Health | F.B.Gillison@bath.ac.uk | Improving health behaviours to prevent and reduce obesity | 0000-0002-6461-7638 |
| Prof Richard Guy | Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology | R.H.Guy@bath.ac.uk | Skin barrier function, characterisation and transdermal drug delivery | 0000-0003-3227-9862 |
| Prof Sarah Halligan | Professor of Child and Family Mental Health | S.L.Halligan@bath.ac.uk | The development of psychological disorders especially PTSD & depression in young people | 0000-0002-3436-3358 |
| Dr Matthew Jones | Senior Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology Centre for Doctoral Training in Aeorsol Science | M.D.Jones@bath.ac.uk | Medicines information and medicines safety and particularly the links between them. | 0000-0002-2617-4098 |
| Prof Robert Kelsh | Professor of Stem Cell Development | R.N.Kelsh@bath.ac.uk | Neural crest (stem) cell development, especially fate specification | 0000-0002-9381-0066 |
| Prof Edmund Keogh | Professor of Psychology | E.M.Keogh@bath.ac.uk | Psychosocial mechanisms of pain | 0000-0002-1615-3699 |
| Prof Jonathan Knight | Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) | pysjck@bath.ac.uk | Photonics and optical physics | 0000-0002-0802-8804 |
| Prof Banafshe Larijani | Professor of Therapeutic Innovation | B.Larijani@bath.ac.uk | Cross disciplinary research (physical sciences) to develop novel avenues for investigation of biological processes in signalling | 0000-0003-4735-1169 |
| Dr Anita McGrogan | Senior Lecturer in Pharmacoepidemiology | A.McGrogan@bath.ac.uk | Medication utilisation and medication safety in vulnerable populations | 0000-0003-3855-9400 |
| Prof Neil McHugh | Professor of Rheumatology | N.J.McHugh@bath.ac.uk | Serology of idiopathic inflammatory myositis, scleroderma, lupus and juvenile idiopathic arthritis Early detection and treatment guidelines in psoriatic arthritis | 0000-0003-2765-658X |
| Prof Randy Mrsny | Professor, Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology Centre for Therapeutic Innovation | R.J.Mrsny@bath.ac.uk | Aspects of epithelial cell structure/function in health and disease | 0000-0001-8505-8516 |
| Prof Adele Murrell | Professor of Epigenetics | A.M.Murrell@bath.ac.uk | Tumorigenesis and metastasis disruption to genome organisation leading to the aberrant expression of several genes related to cancer cell survival | 0000-0003-2647-3511 |
| Dr Prasad Nishtala | Reader, Department of Life Sciences Centre for Therapeutic Innovation | P.Nishtala@bath.ac.uk | Coordinated approach to accelerate real-world evidence using Big data to improve ageing and pioneer translational research to improve the safety of medicines in the ageing population | 0000-0002-4155-8540 |
| Prof Andrew Preston | Department of Biology & Biochemistry Milner Centre for Evolution | A.Preston@bath.ac.uk | Bacterial pathogenesis | 0000-0002-1489-280X |
| Prof Samuel Sheppard | Department of Biology & Biochemistry Milner Centre for Evolution Centre for Mathematical Biology | S.K.Sheppard@bath.ac.uk | The use of genetics/genomics and phenotypic studies to address complex questions in the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of microbes | 0000-0001-6901-3203 |
| Dr Paula Smith | Senior Lecturer Palliative and end of life care | P.C.Smith@bath.ac.uk | Palliative and end of life care | 0000-0002-2945-8694 |
| Prof Dylan Thompson | Professor of Human Physiology | D.Thompson@bath.ac.uk | Physical activity, exercise and nutrition | 0000-0002-6312-1518 |
| Prof Stephen Ward | Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmacology | S.G.Ward@bath.ac.uk | Mechanisms of inflammation and fibrosis | 0000-0002-6795-6002 |
| Prof Christiane Berger-Schaffitzel | Wellcome Trust Investigator, Professor of Biochemistry | christiane.berger-schaffitzel@bristol.ac.uk | How cells recognize problems during protein synthesis and target the defective proteins and their encoding mRNAs to degradation | 0000-0002-1516-9760 |
| Prof Andrew Dick | Professor of Ophthalmology | A.Dick@bristol.ac.uk | Inflammatory eye disease | 0000-0002-0742-3159 |
| Prof Andrew Dowsey | Chair in Population Health Data Science, Bristol Veterinary School Bristol Population Health Science Institute | andrew.dowsey@bristol.ac.uk | the facilitation and acceleration of health sciences research through novel artificial intelligence and statistical data science methodology | 0000-0002-7404-9128 |
| Gene Feder | Professor of Primary Care, Bristol Medical School (PHS) Bristol Population Health Science Institute Centre for Academic Primary Care | Gene.Feder@bristol.ac.uk | The diagnosis and management of stable heart disease and health care responses to domestic violence | 0000-0002-7890-3926 |
| Prof Adam Finn | Professor of Paediatrics | Adam.Finn@bristol.ac.uk | Infection and immunity | 0000-0003-1756-5668 |
| Prof Tom Gaunt | Professor of Health and Biomedical Informatics and MRC Investigator, Bristol Medical School (PHS) Bristol Population Health Science Institute Programme Lead, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit | Tom.Gaunt@bristol.ac.uk | Understanding the mechanisms of disease, through the integration of diverse biomedical and epidemiological data; the development of software tools for analysis of these data | 0000-0003-0924-3247 |
| Prof Matthew Hickman | Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology – Deputy Head of School and Head of Population Health Science | Matthew.Hickman@bristol.ac.uk | Infectious disease control and the epidemiological and public health consequences of drug use | 0000-0001-9864-459X |
| Professor James Hodge | Professor School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience | james.hodge@bristol.ac.uk | How neural circuit activity underlies behaviour including circadian rhythms, sleep, memory and movement | 0000-0003-4741-2363 |
| Prof Matthew Jones | Professorial Research Fellow in Neuroscience | Matt.Jones@bristol.ac.uk | How neurons distributed across functionally specialised brain regions share information | 0000-0001-5396-3108 |
| Prof Golam Khandaker | Professor of Psychiatry | golam.khandaker@bristol.ac.uk | Identifying and validating novel immunological mechanisms and potential treatment targets for major psychiatric disorders | 0000-0002-4935-9220 |
| Dr Duleeka Knipe | Vice Chancellor’s Fellow | Dee.Knipe@bristol.ac.uk | The social determinants of mental health especially suicide and self-harm | 0000-0002-1040-7635 |
| Prof Deborah Lawlor | Professor of Epidemiology | D.A.Lawlor@bristol.ac.uk | Women’s health and pregnancy | 0000-0002-6793-2262 |
| Professor Richard Martin | Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Deputy Head of Bristol Medical School & Head of PHS | richard.martin@bristol.ac.uk | Prostate cancer aetiology (with a focus on metabolic factors such as the IGF system) | 0000-0002-7992-7719 |
| Prof Ruth Massey | Professor of Microbial Pathogenicity | ruth.massey@bristol.ac.uk | Using genomics to study pathogenicity | 0000-0002-8154-4039 |
| Prof Paul Moran | Professor of Psychiatry | paul.moran@bristol.ac.uk | The epidemiology and treatment of personality disorders (PD) and self-harming behaviour. | 0000-0002-9257-8699 |
| Prof Marcus Munafò | Professor of Biological Psychology | Marcus.Munafo@bristol.ac.uk | Pathways into, & consequences of, health behaviours and mental health | 0000-0002-4049-993X |
| Prof Eugenia Piddini | Professorial Research Fellow in Cell Biology | eugenia.piddini@bristol.ac.uk | Cell competition: mechanisms and function in cancer | 0000-0003-3901-076X |
| Dr Dheeraj Rai | Associate Professor in Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry | Dheeraj.Rai@bristol.ac.uk | Autism Spectrum Disorder | 0000-0002-7239-3523 |
| Prof Kristen Reyher | Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology and Population Health, Bristol Veterinary School Bristol Population Health Science Institute Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Mathematics and Ecology Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Science, Bristol Veterinary School | Kristen.Reyher@bristol.ac.uk | Antimicrobial resistance | 0000-0003-4912-5026 |
| Prof Anne Ridley | Professor and Head of School, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Cancer | anne.ridley@bristol.ac.uk | Cancer, cell migration, cell signalling | 0000-0001-8186-5708 |
| Dr Laura Rivino | Associate Professor in Immunology | laura.rivino@bristol.ac.uk | T cells contribution to protective immunity and /or immunopathology during viral infection, particularly dengue virus infection, and COVID-19 | 0000-0001-6213-9794 |
| Prof Moin Saleem | Professor and Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist, Bristol Children’s Hospital | M.Saleem@bristol.ac.uk | Glomerular disease research including podocyte biology and nephrotic syndromes | 0000-0002-9808-4518 |
| Prof Simon Satchell | Professor of Renal and Vascular Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS) | S.C.Satchell@bristol.ac.uk | To understand the contribution of GEnC to the glomerular filtration barrier in terms of the ultrastructural features and corresponding physiology | 0000-0001-5276-4537 |
| Jenny Scott | Senior Lecturer | jennifer.scott@bristol.ac.uk | Pharmacy, harm reduction and addition | 0000-0002-4920-0914 |
| Prof Nicholas Timpson | Professor of Genetic Epidemiology | N.J.Timpson@bristol.ac.uk | The contribution of genetic factors to complex traits and the use of genetic data within frameworks of epidemiological analysis allowing causal inference | 0000-0002-7141-9189 |
| Dr Emma Vincent | Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School | emma.vincent@bristol.ac.uk | Genetic epidemiology & cancer cell biology | 0000-0002-8917-7384 |
| Dr Helen Weavers | Research Fellow, School of Biochemistry | Helen.Weavers@bristol.ac.uk | Defense strategies used by developing and repairing tissues to make them resilient to damage | 0000-0002-5383-6085 |
| Michael Whitehouse | Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics | Michael.Whitehouse@bristol.ac.uk | Orthopaedics; joint replacement & infection management | 0000-0003-2436-9024 |
| Dr Harry Ahmed | Senior Clinical Lecturer in Epidemiology. Director, Academic Fellows Scheme | ahmedh2@cardiff.ac.uk | Epidemiology, linked healthcare records | 0000-0002-0634-8548 |
| Prof Davina Allen | Head of Research and Innovation, School of Healthcare Sciences | allenda@cardiff.ac.uk | Research interests in nursing, healthcare work organisation, and service improvement. | 0000-0002-6729-7502 |
| Prof John Atack | Director, Medicines Discovery Institute | atackj@cardiff.ac.uk | Drug discovery | 0000-0002-3410-791X |
| Prof Duncan Baird | Chair, School of Medicine, Professor of Cancer and Genetics | bairddm@cardiff.ac.uk | Telomere biology | 0000-0001-8408-5467 |
| Prof Monica Busse-Morris | Director of Mind, Brain and Neuroscience Trials School of Medicine | busseme@cardiff.ac.uk | The development, evaluation and understanding of interventions such as physical activity & behavioural change techniques required to inform assessment of outcomes in complex health conditions | 0000-0002-5331-5909 |
| Matthias Eberl | Professor of Translational Immunology, Division of Infection and Immunity. Joint Academic Lead for Public Involvement and Engagement, School of Medicine. | EberlM@cardiff.ac.uk | The molecular and cellular basis of host-pathogen relationships and the underlying modulation of complex immune responses | 0000-0002-9390-5348 |
| Prof Donald Fraser | Director Wales Kidney Research Unit | fraserdj@cardiff.ac.uk | Mechanisms underlying injury & scarring in the kidney and peritoneum | 0000-0003-0102-9342 |
| Prof Awen Gallimore | Co-Director of Systems Immunity Research Institute | gallimoream@cardiff.ac.uk | Identifying the correlates of anti-viral and anti-cancer immunity to inform the design of new treatments | 0000-0001-6675-7004 |
| Prof Jeremy Hall | Director – Division of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, Director – Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Hon. Consultant Psychiatrist. | hallj10@cardiff.ac.uk | Psychiatric translational models | 0000-0002-0403-3278 |
| Ben Hanningan | Professor: Mental Health Nursing and Director of Postgraduate Research | hanniganb@cardiff.ac.uk | Using health and social sciences methodology to study mental health systems including policy; service organisation and delivery; work, roles and values | 0000-0002-2512-6721 |
| Prof Neil Harrison | Clinical Professor in Neuroimaging | harrisonn4@cardiff.ac.uk | Immunopsychiatry | 0000-0002-9584-3769 |
| Prof Ian Humphreys | Director of Systems Immunity Research Institute. Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. Infection Lead, Division of Infection and Immunity | humphreysir@cardiff.ac.uk | The regulation of immune responses during viral infections | 0000-0002-9512-5337 |
| Prof Simon Jones | Dean of Research; Co-Director of Systems Immunity Research Institute; Research Theme Lead – Infection, Inflammation & Immunity | jonessa@cardiff.ac.uk | Cytokines | 0000-0001-7297-9711 |
| Prof Kevin Murphy | Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Head of Brain Imaging Group | murphyk2@cardiff.ac.uk | Functional MRI | 0000-0002-6516-313X |
| Prof Valerie O’Donnell | Professor of lipid biochemistry, Division of Infection and Immunity | o-donnellvb@cardiff.ac.uk | Discovery & characterisation of new lipids made by circulating vascular cells that regulate immune defence and blood clotting | 0000-0003-4089-8460 |
| Prof Shea Palmer | Professor of Physiotherapy | PalmerS9@cardiff.ac.uk | Musculoskeletal health, particularly joint hypermobility-related conditions (hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders). | 0000-0002-5190-3264 |
| Prof Frances Rice | Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences | ricef2@cardiff.ac.uk | Developmental psychopathology | 0000-0002-9484-1729 |
| Dr Victoria Shepherd | NIHR Doctoral & Advanced Fellow (Nurse) | shepherdvl1@cardiff.ac.uk | Ethics/Decision Making | 0000-0002-7687-0817 |
| Prof Valerie Sparkes | Director: Biomechanics and Bioengineering Research Centre Versus Arthritis | sparkesv@cardiff.ac.uk | Spinal pain dysfunction | 0000 0003 4500 9327 |
| Prof Brad Spiller | Reader: School of Medicine | SpillerB@cardiff.ac.uk | Antimicrobial Resistance Bacterial virulence Low-to-Middle Income countries Neonatal sepsis Sexually Transmitted Infections Ureaplasma, Mycoplasma Legionella species (environmental & clinical) Group B Strep. Gram positive pathogens Clinical diagnostic advancements | 0000-0002-9117-6911 |
| Prof Richard Stanton | Professor of Virology, School of Medicine | stantonrj@cardiff.ac.uk | The biology, immunology and diagnosis of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) as well as the development of recombinant adenovirus vectors | 0000-0002-6799-1182 |
| Prof Anita Thapar | Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences | Thapar@cardiff.ac.uk | Child neurodevelopmental disorders and depression | 0000-0002-3689-737X |
| Prof James Walters | Director, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics; Deputy Director/Professor, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences | waltersjt@cardiff.ac.uk | Psychiatric genetics | 0000-0002-6980-4053 |
| Prof Clive Ballard | Professor of Age-related diseases, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean | C.Ballard@exeter.ac.uk | Dementia | 0000-0003-0022-5632 |
| Dr Emma Baple | Clinical Senior Lecturer Leads – Rare Disease Research Group, University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health | e.baple@exeter.ac.uk | New genetic technologies to identify the cause of rare genetic disorders and translation of that knowledge to improve clinical diagnostics and treatment | 0000-0002-6637-3411 |
| Prof Inês Barroso | Professor of Diabetes | ines.barroso@exeter.ac.uk | Genetic aetiology and mechanisms of type 2 diabetes | 0000-0001-5800-4520 |
| Professor Albert Basson | Professor of Neuroscience and Epigenetics | M.A.Basson@exeter.ac.uk | neurodevelopment disorders, autism, intellectual disability, learning and memory, neuroscience, epigenetic, chromatin, psychiatry, neurology | 0000-0001-9834-7528 |
| Prof Gordon Brown | Director MRC Centre for Medical Mycology | gordon.brown@exeter.ac.uk | Understand the role and function of C-type lectins in immunity during fungal infection | 0000-0002-0287-5383 |
| Dr Peter Cook | Lecturer – Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow MRC CMM | P.C.Cook@exeter.ac.uk | Mechanistic understanding of asthmatic immunopathology | 0000-0002-5208-4985 |
| Prof Andrew Crosby | Professor of Human Genetics | A.H.Crosby@exeter.ac.uk | Community genomic and neurogenetics | 0000-0003-3667-9054 |
| Prof Helen Dawes | Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation | h.dawes@exeter.ac.uk | Working with industry, clinicians and the public, to develop, evaluate and translate to clinical practice transformative innovation | 0000-0002-2933-5213 |
| Dr Sarah Flanagan | Associate Professor in Genomic Medicine and Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow | S.Flanagan@exeter.ac.uk | Monogenic disorders of insulin secretion | 0000-0002-8670-6340 |
| Prof Tim Frayling | Professor of Human Genetics | t.m.frayling@exeter.ac.uk | Genome wide approaches to identify genetic variation associated with common human disease | 0000-0001-8362-2603 |
| Dr Rachel Freathy | Associate Professor and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow | R.Freathy@exeter.ac.uk | Using genetics to understand the factors affecting the growth of a foetus in utero and its association with type 2 diabetes in adulthood | 0000-0003-4152-2238 |
| Assoc. Prof Mattia Frontini | Associate Professor in Cell Biology | M.Frontini@exeter.ac.uk | Understanding the role of human genetic variation in cardiovascular disease | 0000-0001-8074-6299 |
| Prof Neil Gow | Professor of Microbiology | n.gow@exeter.ac.uk | Medical mycology | 0000-0002-2776-5850 |
| Prof Willie Hamilton | Professor of Primary Care Diagnostics | w.hamilton@exeter.ac.uk | Primary care diagnostics, with particular expertise in cancer | 0000-0003-1611-1373 |
| Prof Andrew Hattersley | Gillings Chair of Precision Medicine, Professor of Molecular Medicine & Consultant Physician | A.T.Hattersley@exeter.ac.uk | Investigation of the genetic and molecular basis of inherited conditions | 0000-0001-5620-473X |
| Prof Gaspar Jekely | Professor of Neuroscience | G.Jekely@exeter.ac.uk | The neural circuit bases of behaviour | 0000-0001-8496-9836 |
| Prof Sallie Lamb | Associate Dean for Research & Mireille Gillings Professor of Health Innovation | s.e.lamb@exeter.ac.uk | Ageing, disability and rehabilitation | 0000-0003-4349-7195 |
| Prof Johnathan Mill | Professor of Epigenetics | J.Mill@exeter.ac.uk | Molecular pathology of neurodevelopmental and neurodenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, autism and schizophrenia | 0000-0003-1115-3224 |
| Prof Noel Morgan | Professor of Endocrine Pharmacology; Director – Institute of Biomedical & Clinical Science | N.G.Morgan@exeter.ac.uk | The (patho)physiology of the pancreatic beta-cell in the context of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes | 0000-0003-1537-8113 |
| Dr Kash Patel | Wellcome Trust Fellow and Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology | k.a.patel@exeter.ac.uk | Understanding the genetics of diabetes with a focus on Monogenic and Type 1 diabetes | 0000-0002-9240-8104 |
| Prof Rupert Payne | Professor of Primary Care and Clinical Pharmacology | R.A.Payne@exeter.ac.uk | Improving the safety and quality of medicines use in primary care | 0000-0002-5842-4645 |
| Prof Soojin Ryu | Mireille Gillings Professor of Neurobiology | S.Ryu@exeter.ac.uk | Understanding how prolonged or severe exposure to stress hormones lead to behavioral dysfunctions | 0000-0002-7059-0160 |
| Prof Austin Smith | Director, Living Systems Institute | austin.smith@exeter.ac.uk | Pluripotent stem cell biology | 0000-0002-3029-4682 |
| Prof Nick Stone | Professor of Biomedical Imaging and Biosensing | N.Stone@exeter.ac.uk | Novel optical diagnostics within the clinical setting | 0000-0001-5603-3731 |
| Prof Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova | Professor of Mathematics for Healthcare | K.Tsaneva-Atanasova@exeter.ac.uk | The applications of mathematics for personalised prediction and decision in prevention, diagnosis or treatment of health related conditions | 0000-0002-6294-7051 |
| Prof Adilia Warris | Professor (Clinical) Deputy Centre Director MRC Centre for Medical Mycology | a.warris@exeter.ac.uk | Paediatric infectious diseases with a specific interest in medical mycology. | 0000-0001-6586-3358 |