Akbar Group: Extracellular Vesicles in Cardiovascular, Inflammatory and Metabolic Disease
The Akbar Lab is interested in defining the therapeutic and diagnostic potential of extracellular vesicles for immunomodulation and precision medicine in cardiovascular, metabolic, and inflammatory diseases.
We have a particular interest in how endothelial cell derived extracellular vesicles mediate long range communication across organs, and how we can capitalise on this signalling for targeted therapeutics and diagnosis. We employ state of the art techniques in extracellular vesicle isolation and characterisation, using translational approaches of highly characterised clinical cohorts to derive hypothesis driven in vitro and in vivo studies using model systems.
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Dr Stephanie Anderson (Novo Nordisk Fellow)
Postdoctoral Research Assistants
Dr Rebecca Rooney
DPhil Students
Current
Lewis Timms
Amaury Genovese
Waleed Seddiq
Alumni
2024 Dann Paget
2019 Laurienne Edgar
Masters Students
Current
Leo Hesse
Alumni
2024 Amber Wilkins
Undergraduate Final Honours School Students
Current
Samuel Thompson
Alumni
2023 Divya Ganesh
2022 Raphaella Ridley
2019 Charlotte Lee
2018 Jonathan Martin
2018 Eleanor Hogg
2017 Tanvir Rafe