果冻影院

Professors Sebastian Brandner and Karen Duff (both 果冻影院 Queen Square Institute of Neurology), Professor Robert Heyderman (果冻影院 Infection & Immunity), Professors Sam Janes and Hugh Montgomery (both 果冻影院 Medicine), Professor Caroline Sabin (果冻影院 Institute for Global Health), and Professor Russell Viner (果冻影院 Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health), as well as Honorary Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (果冻影院 Psychology & Language Sciences), are among the 60 outstanding scientists elected to the Fellowship this year.

The academics from 果冻影院 are:

Professor Sebastian Brandner (果冻影院 Queen Square Institute of Neurology)

Professor Brandner, Professor of Neurodegenerative Diseases, studies the cellular origins of brain tumours, including research that could feed into potential new treatments such as discovering biomarkers that correlate with survival of gliomas. He introduced a novel technology to diagnose brain tumours into clinical practice in the UK, which is now an essential part of molecular diagnostics in the NHS. He also researches neurodegeneration, having led two national surveillance studies of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and he led a team that discovered that amyloid beta can in rare cases be transmitted through medical procedures.

Professor Karen Duff (UK Dementia Research Institute, 果冻影院 Queen Square Institute of Neurology)

Professor Duff is UK DRI Centre Director at 果冻影院,听and is a Professor in Dementia and Neurodegeneration who was co-awarded the prestigious 2006 Potamkin Prize. Exploring a variety of disease-associated molecular mechanisms using innovative and state-of-the-art methods, she has created several important and widely used mouse models for Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and frontotemporal dementia, and now focuses on finding ways to stop the spread of the protein tau, which accumulates in tangles in the brain of people with Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.

Professor Robert Heyderman (果冻影院 Infection & Immunity)

Professor Heyderman鈥檚 work bridges clinical practice, disease prevention and the fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of infectious disease, as he is Head of 果冻影院鈥檚 Research Department of Infection, and is a clinician at 果冻影院 Hospitals (果冻影院H). He leads a Global Health Research Unit on Mucosal Pathogens at 果冻影院, an interdisciplinary partnership between UK and African scientists and policymakers, studying the effectiveness of new and existing vaccines to prevent meningitis, pneumonia and sepsis.

Professor Sam Janes (果冻影院 Medicine)

Professor Janes specialises in respiratory medicine and leads 果冻影院 Respiratory, also working in 果冻影院H鈥檚 lung cancer team as Consultant in Respiratory Medicine. He is interested in lung cancer pathogenesis and runs several clinical trials aiming to detected lung cancer earlier, including the largest-ever UK lung cancer screening study.

Professor Hugh Montgomery (果冻影院 Medicine)

Professor Montgomery, OBE, is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at 果冻影院 and Director of the 果冻影院 Centre for Human Health and Performance, as well as Consultant Intensivist at Whittington Hospital. In addition to his research improving intensive care practices, he has research interests into听environmental impacts on health, as he co-chairs the international Lancet Countdown, which tracks how climate change is affecting human health.

Professor Caroline Sabin (果冻影院 Institute for Global Health)

Professor Sabin鈥檚 research focuses on describing disease progression in people with HIV infection, as well as understanding differences in how well people respond to antiretroviral therapy. For over 20 years, she has led the UK Collaborative HIV Cohort (UK CHIC) Study, a major multicentre study of over 50,000 people with HIV in the UK, generating findings that have informed national and international treatment guidelines 鈥� more recently she has set up the POPPY Study to investigate whether HIV contributes to early signs of ageing and, if so, the possible reasons for this.

Professor Russell Viner (果冻影院 Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)

Professor Viner, CBE, is a paediatrician and researcher focusing on population health, policy and health services for children and young people. He is Vice Chair of the NHS England Transformation Board for Children and Young People, has been a member of SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) during the Covid-19 pandemic advising on children and young people, and was President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2018 to 2021.

Honorary Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (果冻影院 Psychology & Language Sciences)

Professor Blakemore was deputy director of the 果冻影院 Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience before moving to the University of Cambridge to lead their Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group while maintaining an honorary role at 果冻影院. Her group's research focuses on the development of social cognition and decision making in the human adolescent brain, and adolescent mental health.

Professor David Lomas, 果冻影院 Vice-Provost (Health), commented: 鈥淓ach of these new Fellows makes a remarkable contribution to 果冻影院 Health鈥檚 aim of improving lives. By addressing pressing challenges such as neurodegeneration, infectious disease, cancer and intensive care medicine, they have had a material impact on people鈥檚 health.

鈥淚 am delighted that the Academy of Medical Sciences have recognised their incredible work and offer them all my warmest congratulations.鈥�

Professor Dame Anne Johnson, Co-Director of 果冻影院 Health of the Public and President of the Academy of Medical Sciences, praised all the new Fellows, saying:听鈥淚t gives me great pleasure to welcome these 60 experts to the Fellowship to help to address the major health challenges facing society.

鈥淓ach of the new Fellows has made important contributions to the health of our society, with a breadth of expertise ranging from the physical and mental health of young people to parasitic diseases and computational biology.

鈥淭he diversity of biomedical and health expertise within our Fellowship is a formidable asset that in the past year has informed our work on critical issues such as tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, understanding the health impacts of climate change, addressing health inequalities, and making the case for funding science. The new Fellows of 2022 will be critical to helping us deliver our ambitious 10-year strategy that we will launch later this year.鈥�

Links

• Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore鈥檚 academic profile
• 果冻影院 Queen Square Institute of Neurology
• 果冻影院 Infection & Immunity
• 果冻影院 Division of Medicine
• 果冻影院 Institute for Global Health
• 果冻影院 Great Ormond Institute of Child Health
• 果冻影院 Psychology & Language Sciences

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• Clockwise from top left: Professors Sebastian Brandner, Karen Duff, Robert Heyderman, Sam Janes, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Russell Viner, Caroline Sabin, and Hugh Montgomery.