Research Team

Chief investigators 

Prof Konstantinos Gerasimidis: Academic Chief investigator and study lead 

Prof Richard K Russell: Clinical Chief investigator and PI for Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh 

Research team 

Dr Konstantinos Gkikas: Lead postdoctoral Research associate 

Dr Maria Lima: postdoctoral Research associate (Prof Gerasimidis’ Lab) 

Dr Ben Nichols: postdoctoral Research associate (Prof Gerasimidis’ Lab) 

Dr Caroline Kerbiriou: postdoctoral Research assistant (Prof Gerasimidis’ Lab) 

Dr Tom Fenton: postdoctoral Research associate (Prof Milling Lab) 

Dr Annabelle Smith: Research assistant (Prof Milling Lab) 

Patricia Kelly: Research assistant (Dr Rattray Lab) 

Academic team 

Prof Simon Milling: Academic PI on Immunology 

Dr Nicholas Rattray: Academic PI on Metabolomics 

Dr Umer Z Ijaz: Academic PI on Bioinformatics 

Clinical team 

Dr Richard Hansen: Clinical PI for Dundee Children’s Hospital and former PI of Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow 

Dr Iain Chalmers: Clinical PI for Aberdeen Children’s Hospital and Dundee Children’s Hospital  

Dr Marco Gasparetto: Former Clinical PI for Royal London Children’s Hospital 

Dr Lisa Gervais: IBD specialist research nurse and former Clinical PI for Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow 

Dr David Wands: Clinical PI for PI for Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow 

Dr Thomas Jordan: Clinical PI for NHS Lanarkshire 

Dr Lawrence Armstrong: Clinical PI for NHS Ayrshire & Arran 

Dr Rafeeq Muhammad: Clinical PI for Birmingham Children’s Hospital 

Minal Patel: Clinical PI for Royal London Children’s Hospital 

Hannah Barlow: Clinical PI for Manchester Children’s Hospital 

Dr Ghassan Al Hourani: Clinical PI for NHS Forth Valley 

Previous team members 

Dr Ryan Wong: Research assistant 

Shona McKirdy: Research assistant