Staff A-Z

Jean Assender is a Lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Sciences with an interest in breast cancer.

As Programme Lead for the MSc in Clinical Oncology she has increased the scope of the programme introducing new modules, an FRCR route and now a full time programme with clinical observership. The programme offers students from a variety of oncology related disciplines a high quality ...

Dr Brain is the Head of Intercalation for the College of Medicine and Health, Head of Assessments (MBChB) and the deputy lead for Years 1 and 2 of the MBChB programme.

Professor Geoffrey Brown is an expert in haematopoiesis, cancer stem cells, and retinoid biology. He is a partner in the EU-funded Doctoral Network eRaDicate.

Andrew Coney is a Senior Lecturer in Physiology and is the Admissions Tutor for the Biomedical Science programme. Andrew specialises in cardiovascular and respiratory physiology and has teaching responsibilities on many of the undergraduate programmes in the College of Medicine and Health.

Andrew combines his teaching with his research interests on cardiorespiratory function throughout life. ...

Sarah Conner is a Senior Lecturer in Reproductive Biology and an Honorary Research Scientist at the Birmingham Women’s Fertility Centre.

In addition to her research interests, Sarah is an enthusiastic contributor to and coordinator of Reproduction teaching across a number of undergraduate programmes in the University.

Alison Cooper’s current role focusses on education; this includes everything from face to face student contact through to responsibility for Quality Assurance activity across the college. Alison’s main strategic role is at College level, as the Deputy Director of Education (Quality Assurance). This involves oversight of data, compliance processes and monitoring as well as advising on ...

Vivek Dhir is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Endocrinology and has published a number of high impact research papers in scientific journals as well as reviews in the fields of endocrinology, metabolism and genetics. He has received major grants from the Welcome trust and The MRC.

Vivek is keen to talk about his science and gives frequent seminars to various groups at the local, national and ...

As an Associate Professor in Steroid Metabolism and Signalling I have expanded upon a successful Versus Arthritis Early Career Development fellowship to become a leader in the field of steroid metabolism and inflammation and in vivo models of chronic inflammation. My research group is examining the roles of myeloid and mesenchymal steroid metabolism and signalling in mediating inflammatory ...

Associate Professor Lisa Hill is a Translational Neuroscientist within the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Birmingham. She is the Pre-Clinical lead of the Translational Brain Science Research Group  and PI/Lead of the Neuro-Ocular Inflammation and Matrix Research Group within Neuroscience, Trauma and Ophthalmology . Completing her PhD at the University of Birmingham in ...

Andrew Holmes is a Lecturer in Cardiac and Respiratory Physiology in the Institute of Clinical Sciences.

His research interests are in the field of cardiovascular and respiratory physiology and pathology, with an emphasis on identifying novel mechanisms underlying hypertension and cardiac arrhythmia.

Dr Holmes has a key research focus on evaluating how cardiorespiratory reflex dysfunction ...

Richard is an Associate Professor in Gastrointestinal Biomedical Science within the Department of Biomedical Sciences. His research focusses on how different dietary components contribute to the development and progression of intestinal diseases and in particular how the intestinal microbiome is implicated. Previous work has focussed on dietary iron and how this key nutrient can modulate ...

Dr. Laila Kudsiova is an Associate Professor and Postgraduate Research Lead in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, based at the University of Birmingham’s Dubai campus. She currently teaches across various modules on Biomedical Sciences and is overseeing the PhD programmes in Dubai.

Having initially qualified as a pharmacist in the UK, Laila then went on to pursue her passion for ...

Wendy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, based in the College of Medicine and Health. 

Her research interests are now in educational research with an emphasis on student support, interprofessional education and teaching and learning. 

Wendy is a neuroscientist with teaching responsibilities across the Department. Her past research interests were ...

Linda Lefievre is a Senior Lecturer in Endocrinology.  She is Deputy Director of Education for Digital and Distance Learning for the College of Medicine and Health.

Linda's research expertise is in reproduction, particularly focusing on sperm maturation in the female tract prior fertilisation, a process known as sperm capacitation. Linda has a wide teaching portfolio and teaches across many ...

I am the current Programme Director for Biomedical Sciences in the University of Birmingham Dubai campus.  I handle varied aspects in the management of the programme which involves liaising and collaborating with academic leaders in both the Edgbaston and Dubai campuses. I manage the academic team that teaches and facilitates learning activities across the varied modules of the Biomedical ...

Janice is Bowman Professor of Physiology having been appointed to a Personal Chair in Cardiovascular Science in 2015.

Janice has an international reputation for research into the regulation of the cardiovascular system by the central nervous, reflex mechanisms and local factors released by tissue cells and endothelium.  Much of her work has focussed on responses evoked by environmental ...

Jennifer is a lecturer based in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences with a background in immunology.

In the Medical School, Jennifer teaches on modules in all years of the Biomedical Sciences BSc and is the Academic Support Tutor for the programme. She also teaches on the MBChB and MPharm programmes.

In Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences Jennifer is ...

Karim Mustafa is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Birmingham Dubai.

Dr. Sreepoorna Pramodh joined the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Dubai in May 2023. She teaches Immunology, Endocrinology, and Cell Biology in addition to other subjects to Year 1 and Year 2 students currently. Her research interests are focussed on cancer and stem cell biology as well as reproductive biology.

Clare Ray is an Honorary Professor of Widening Participation in Biomedical Education. In her previous role as College of Medicine and Health lead for Outreach and Widening Participation she led a range of successful schemes and activities to promote the participation, success and progression of underrepresented groups in Higher Education. In recognition of this work she received the Joseph ...

Chloe Thomas is a Post-Doctoral Researcher within the Department of Biomedical Sciences. Her research interests are in ocular injury and disease and the development of novel therapeutics and in the identification of biomarkers for traumatic brain injury. She completed her PhD research on cell death mechanisms in the retina and optic nerve after blunt impact and explosive blast ocular ...

Teresa Thomas is an Associate Professor and the Head of Department of Biomedical Sciences, based in the College of Medicine and Health.

Her research interests are now in educational research with an emphasis on academic integrity, sense of belonging and access and participation. She works closely with other academics to support students in understanding good academic integrity and with HEFi to ...

Chris Tselepis is currently the Director of Education for the College of Medicine and Health. In this role Chris is responsible for the entire education portfolio in the college.  Chris is a Professor of Biomedical Science, a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, Principal Fellow of HEA and up to quite recently was Director of the Institute of Clinical Sciences. Chris is heavily involved ...

Kevin Whitehead is a lecturer in the Neuropharmacology team, and principal investigator of the Pain Signalling Group.

Kevin has extensive experience of in vivomonitoring of neurochemistry and his current research is aimed towards an understanding the role of central neuroinflammatory processes in chronic pain. This is approached through whole animal studies for which he holds a Home Office ...

Tracey Wilkinson joined the University of Birmingham in February 2023 as the Sands Cox Chair of Anatomy. She previously worked for several years in the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification in Dundee, where she became familiar with the Thiel embalming technique.

She is medically qualified with a PhD in biomechanics and anatomy, and has worked in many educational institutions in several ...