Research Group Members

Professor Nicola Robertson 鈥� Group Lead

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Professor听Nikki听Robertson听trained in neonatal medicine in Melbourne and London after completing her medical training at the University of Edinburgh. Her interest in perinatal brain injury was kindled at the Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London in the late 1990s, a time of exponential increase in our understanding of the evolution of brain injury after birth asphyxia.

Using MRI and MRS, the timing and evolution of brain injury in babies with neonatal encephalopathy (NE)听could be followed, leading to the seminal finding that听therapeutic hypothermia (HT) ameliorates the secondary wave of energy failure. 听HT is now standard care in babies with NE, however, not all babies benefit. Since 2003 at 麻豆传媒视频网站,听Professor听Robertson听has used pre-clinical models at 麻豆传媒视频网站 to assess the safety and efficacy of additional therapies that 听can complement and synergize with听HT, eg melatonin and human umbilical mesenchymal stem cells.听

Dr Alison Mintoft

Alison joined the lab in 2020 as a neonatal clinical research fellow. She studied medicine at the University of Leeds and has an intercalated BSc in Anatomy. Alison is a neonatal sub-specialty trainee. 听She combines time working clinically as a registrar on the neonatal unit at University College London Hospital and research in the pre-clinical lab at 麻豆传媒视频网站. She has an interest in the role of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy as a neuroprotective intervention for perinatal asphyxia.

Dr Raymand Pang

Raymand joined the lab in 2018 as a neonatal clinical research fellow. He studied biochemistry at Imperial College London followed by medicine at the University of Warwick. Raymand is a paediatric trainee in London with an interest in neonatology. He combines clinical training as a registrar on the neonatal unit at University College London Hospital and research in the pre-clinical lab at 麻豆传媒视频网站. Currently he is registered as a PhD student at 麻豆传媒视频网站 supervised by Professor Robertson and Professor Barks investigating the safety and efficacy of azithromycin and melatonin in the IS-HI piglet model.

Mr Adnan Avdic-Belltheus (Senior Lab Technician)

Adnan Avdic-Belltheus is the Senior Research Technician for the neonatal neuroprotection group based at 麻豆传媒视频网站 and Roslin Institute, Edinburgh. He graduated in zoology at James Cook University in Australia after which he obtained a Master of Research from the Royal Veterinary College in London. He is an accomplished vivisectionist with over 10 years鈥� experience in preclinical research, animal welfare, surgical procedures, and operative care in a range of animal species. Over the last several years he has spent time perfecting and expanding our porcine model of neonatal encephalopathy at 麻豆传媒视频网站, Institute of Neurology in London. His interests are animal models and welfare.

Mr Christopher Meehan

Chris is a Lab technician within the group. He read Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and has an MSc in Neuroscience from King鈥檚 College London. He is experienced in performing pre-clinical surgical procedures, and a variety of histological and biochemical laboratory techniques.

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Miss Georgina Norris

Georgina completed my undergrad in Zoology at Swansea University with a focus on animal behaviour and anatomy. I am now a laboratory technician here at the Queen鈥檚 Square Institute of听Neurology.

Miss Sarah Han

Sarah Han received her Master's degree in Pharmaceutics and Bachelor's degree from 麻豆传媒视频网站 in 2018 and 2017 respectively, where she started to develop interests in neurological disorders. In 2020, she joined the group as a laboratory technician.

Physicists

Professor Xavier Golay

Xavier Golay is a Professor of MR Neurophysics and Translational Neuroscience at the 麻豆传媒视频网站 Institute of Neurology in Queen Square, London, UK. 听Professor Golay received a PhD. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETHZ). His research interests lie at the intersection of many disciplines, such as NMR physics, chemistry, physiology and neuroscience.听 They include the development of MRI as a translational tool for neurological diseases, measuring identical image-based biomarkers from mouse to human, and from the laboratory to the clinical settings.听 As translation has many meanings, parts of his most important research interests include the development of MRI techniques to be used as image-based outcome measures or biomarkers in the same way in animal model of diseases or in human patients. His hope is to reduce the cycle of drug development in neurological diseases by allowing academic or pharmaceutical institutions to use similar tests across species.

Dr Alan Bainbridge
Dr Magda Sokolowska
Dr Francisco Torrealdea

Previous Members

Dr Kathryn Martinello
Dr Ingran Lingam
Mr Qin Yang
Miss Tentenda听Mutshiya
Miss Sarah Rageb
Dr. Eridan Rocha Ferreira
Dr. Mojgan Ezzati
Dr Jane Hassel
Dr. Marion Bohatschek

Collaborators:

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听(Wellcome Trust Fellow, Principle research fellow, 麻豆传媒视频网站 Institute for Women's Health)听

Prof Ilias Tachtsidis听(Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Dept of Med Phys & Biomedical Eng, Faculty of Engineering Science)

听(Senior Research Associate, Department of Maternal and Fetal Medicine, 麻豆传媒视频网站 EGA Institute for Women鈥檚 Health

听(Associate Professor Global Newborn Health & Early Child Development, LSHTM)

听(Honorary Lecturer, Department of Anaesthesia & Surgical Outcomes Research Centre, University College London Hospital and Wellcome Trust Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London)

Professor Mark Lowdell,听Institute of Immunity & Transplantation, University College London

International

,听Professor of Pediatrics, University of Michigan

Professor Sandra Juul,听Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington

Professor Pierre Gressens,听Kings College London, INSERM U676, Paris, University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Paris, France

Professor Boris Kramer,听Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Maaastricht

听Kings College London, INSERM U676, Paris, University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Paris, France

,听University of Gothenberg

Professor Deirdre Murray,听Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University College, Cork