Current Fellows

Thomas Agbaedeng
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘Leveraging genomic approaches and genetic associations to identify potential new drug targets in cardiometabolic disease’.
PIs: Professor Chris O'Callaghan and Dr Joanna Howson (NNRCO).

Lorna Daniels
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘Circadian regulation of liver energy metabolism: translational studies in diabetes’.
PIs: Professor David Ray and Dr Maxwell Ruby (NNRCO).

Jessica Kepple
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'The cellular pathology of early kidney disease'.
PIs: Dr Katherine Bull, Professor Richard Cornall and Dr Ramneek Gupta (NNRCO).

Jun Liu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'An integrative cross-omics study of NAFLD and NASH'.
PIs: Professor Cornelia van Duijn and Dr Joanna Howson (NNRCO).

James Liu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Genomic approaches to improve understanding of T2D molecular phenotypes, mechanisms, and development of major complications in diverse populations'
PIs: Professor Zhengming Chen , Dr Joanna Howson (NNRCO)

Inhye Park
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Deciphering the biology of resident vascular macrophages in atherosclerosis'
PIs: Professor Claudia Monaco, Professor Irina Udalova, Dr Alexey Epanchintsev (NNRCO) and Professor Paul Riley.

Gitalee Sarker
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘Neuroimmunity in Obesity and Cardiac function’.
PIs: Associate Professor Ana Domingos, Professor Irina Udalova, Professor David Paterson and Dr Enrique Toledo Maldonado (NNRCO).

Ali Shilleh
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
"Leveraging the cell cytoskeleton to produce GLP1R agonists with improved efficacy for beta cell preservation, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis resolution and gene therapy"
PIs: Professor David Hodson and Carina Ämmälä (NNRCO)

William Stockdale
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘Patient-specific bioinformatics linking coronary microvascular structure, function and gene expression.'
PIs: Professor Kim Dora and Professor Bill Haynes (NNRCO).

Taiyu Zhu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
"Integrating genetics and deep neural networks to identify future drug targets for cardiometabolic disease"
PIs: Associate Prof Alejo Nevado-Holgado, Dr Joanna Howson (NNRCO), Dr Sile Hu (NNRCO), Dr Robert Kitchen (NNRCO)