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).
Stephanie Anderson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Diagnostics of extracellular vesicles in acute myocardial infarction'
PIs: Associate Professor Naveed Akbar, Professor Robin Choudhury and Dr Luke Payne (NNRCO)
Ryan Carter
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'A unique angle to discover novel mechanisms in cardiovascular protection.'
PIs: Associate Professor Mathilda Mommersteeg and Professor Robin Choudhury
Elizabeth Figueroa-Juarez
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Discovery of novel atherosclerosis targets through delineating the arterial group regulatory pathways that change in response to pathological cardiovascular stimuli'.
PIs: Associate Professor Sarah De Val, Associate Professor Gillian Douglas, and Dr Luke Payne (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).
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)
Jun Liu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'An integrative cross-omics study of NAFLD and NASH'.
PIs: Professor Cornelia van Duijn and 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).