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