Key words: biological clocks, gene therapy, embryogenesis, organogenesis, innate immunity, immune responses, inflammation, disease processes, ageing, cancer, plants, molecular medicine, neurodegeneration, parasitology, plant pathology, nutrition, cell division differentiation and death, cardiovascular disease, developmental biology, diabetes, matrix structure, tissue engineering.
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Lisa Chakrabarti (Chair)
University of Nottingham, UK
Keywords: ageing, brain, mitochondria, neurodegeneration, purkinje cell, cerebellum, ataxia, photoreceptor, retina, proteomics, lipidomics, mitophagy, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, comparative biology
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Frank Wessely (Vice chair)
University of Oxford, UK
Keywords: bioinformatics, genomics, epigenomics, systems biology, neurological diseases
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Fred Arce Vargas
Autolus, UK
Keywords: immunology, immune regulation, cancer immunotherapy, T cells, gene therapy
Chris Morris
Biorelate Ltd
Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; natural language processing; pathophysiology
Irundika Dias
Aston University, UK
Keywords: ageing, chronic kidney disease, oxidative stress, mitochondria, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, lipidomics, nutrition, monocytes, neutrophils
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Freddie Theodoulou
Rothamsted Research
Keywords: plant biology, proteostasis, proteomics, transporters
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Ayse Latif
University of Manchester
Keywords: cancer cell biology and therapy, metabolic reprogramming and protein trafficking
Clare Thompson
Queen Mary University of London
Keywords: organ-on-a-chip; primary cilia, cartilage biology
Andriana Margariti
Queen’s University Belfast
Keywords: Endothelial cell dysfunction, diabetes, cell reprogramming, stem cells, cardiovascular disease, cell signalling, mRNA splicing
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Neil Thompson
Healx
Keywords: Drug discovery, Disease biology, Disease mechanisms, Rare Diseases, Oncology, Inflammation, Signalling, Kinases, Drug pharmacology, Translational sciences, Academic/industry collaborations