Research Centres
Our team
The Centre is led by award Director, Professor Andre Ng with support from Centre Manager Natalie Matthewman. Research is carried out by the BHF Leicester Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) theme leads, co-applicants and additional investigators, as well as PhD students and research fellows funded by the BHF CRE Award. The Centre has an External Scientific Advisory Board of internally renowned experts to provide independent external scientific advice to the CRE Executive.
CRE leadership team
- Director: Professor Andre Ng
- Deputy Director: Professor Matt Bown
- Centre Manager: Natalie Matthewman
- Discovery theme leads: Professor Matt Brown and Dr Tom Webb
- Interventions theme leads: Professor Gerry McCann and Dr Anvesha Singh
- Populations theme leads: Professor Kamlesh Khuntiand Dr Claire Lawson
- Training Champion: Professor Veryan Codd
- EDI Champion: Dr Anvesha Singh
- PPIE Champion: Professor Kamlesh Khunti
- Interdisciplinary Champion: Professor Huiyu Zhou
- Commercialisation Champion: Professor Thanos Saratzis
CRE investigators (by theme)
Discovery
- David Adlam
- Aidan Bolger
- Matt Bown
- Veryan Codd
- Radek Debiec
- Frank Dudbridge
- Pankaj Gupta
- Catherine John
- Don Jones
- David McVey
- Chris Nelson
- Leong Ng
- Richard Packer
- Charles Solomon
- Toru Suzuki
- Martin Tobin
- Louise Wain
- Tom Webb
Interventions
- Elina Akalestou
- Ashiq Anjum
- Ranjit Arnold
- Lucy Beishon
- Peter Bradding
- James Burton
- Reshma Chauhan
- Melanie Davies
- Louise Goff
- Matt Graham-Brown
- Gaurav Gulsin
- Shazia Hussain
- Jan Kovac
- Andy Ladwiniec
- Xin Li
- Gerry McCann
- Jatinder Minhas
- Gavin Murphy
- Andre Ng
- Dimitris Papamargaritis
- Katy Roach
- Tom Robinson
- Thanos Saratzis
- Anvesha Singh
- Ian Squire
- Shirley Sze
- Bill Toff
- Tom Yates
- Mustafa Zakkar
- Huiyu Zhou
Populations
- Samuel Cai
- Safoora Gharibzadeh
- Clare Gillies
- Laura Gray
- Anna Hansell
- Calvin Jephcote
- Kamlesh Khunti
- Setor Kunutsor
- Paul Lambert
- Claire Lawson
- Cameron Razieh
- Alex Rowlands
- Samuel Seidu
- Francesco Zaccardi
BHF CRE funded research fellows
- Simon Hand
- Ellen Liggett
- Dr Fiona Newberry
- Dr David McVey
- Charles Solomon
- Joanne Miksza