Staff in Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences

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Dr Deirdre Lane

Dr Deirdre Lane

Lecturer in Cardiovascular Health

Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences

Deirdre Lane is a Lecturer in Cardiovascular Health. She is involved in teaching undergraduate and graduate entry medical students and in the supervision of doctoral students.

Her research is primarily concerned with stroke and bleeding risk in atrial fibrillation and in patient’s perceptions and understanding of the disease and its’ treatment, subjects ...

Telephone +44 (0) 121 507 5080

Email d.a.lane@bham.ac.uk

Dr Siân Lax

Dr Siân Lax

Research Fellow

Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences

Siân Lax is a post-doctoral research fellow working in Doctor David Thickett’s Lung Injury Group. Her current project involves understanding the role of glucocorticoids and Vitamin D in the severity and persistence of acute lung injury (ALI) using in vivo models of lung inflammation and injury. Her previous post-doctoral work involved elucidating the in vivo role of mesenchymal ...

Telephone +44 (0)121 371 3266

Email s.lax@bham.ac.uk

Professor Gregory YH Lip

Professor Gregory YH Lip

Consultant Cardiologist & Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Director - Haemostasis Thrombosis & Vascular Biology Unit

Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences

Professor Lip, MD, is an academic clinical cardiologist based in a busy city centre teaching hospital and leads a large, multidisciplinary research group (including clinical and laboratory-based components). He is also Visiting Professor of Haemostasis Thrombosis and Vascular Sciences in the School of Life & Health Sciences at the University of Aston in Birmingham, England.

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Telephone +44 (0) 121 5075080

Email g.y.h.lip@bham.ac.uk

Dr Marie Lordkipanidze

Dr Marie Lordkipanidze

Research Fellow

Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences

Dr Lordkipanidzé’s major research interest is to bring platelet function testing and molecular biology to clinical settings with the aim of individualizing antiplatelet treatment to specific patient needs.

Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8680

Email m.lordkipanidze@bham.ac.uk

Dr Gillian Lowe

Dr Gillian Lowe

Academic Clinical Research Fellow

Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences

Dr Lowe is a hospital doctor who specialises in haematology (blood disorders) and is interested in problems with bleeding and thrombosis.

Email g.c.lowe@bham.ac.uk

Dr Nguyet-Thin Luu

Dr Nguyet-Thin Luu

Research Fellow

Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences

Thin Luu originally trained as a Pharmacologist and is interested in inflammation and atherosclerosis. She is an expert in setting up complex mono- and multi-cellular models of cell culture in understanding the processes of cell adhesion and migration, and the effects of blood flow on these processes, by application of well-defined, quantitative, in vitro models.

Thin ...

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 4131

Email n.luu@bham.ac.uk

Dr Melanie Madhani

Dr Melanie Madhani

Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine

Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences

Email m.madhani@bham.ac.uk

Professor Janice Marshall

Professor Janice Marshall

Professor Of Cardiovascular Science

Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences

Janice Marshall was an undergraduate at the University of Birmingham and studied for her PhD in the Medical School.  She was appointed to a Lectureship in Physiology, and then to Senior Lectureship, Readership and in 1995, to a Personal Chair in Cardiovascular Science.  In 2002, she became Head of the Division of Medical Sciences in the School of Medicine and held this post until ...

Email j.m.marshall@bham.ac.uk

Dr Alexandra Mazharian

Dr Alexandra Mazharian

BHF Post-doctoral Fellow

Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences

Alexandra is a British Heart Foundation Post-doctoral Research Fellow working in the School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine and an integral member of the Birmingham Platelet Group. Alexandra has a strong background in haemostasis and signal transduction.   Her main research interests are signalling events regulating megakaryocyte development and platelet formation. ...

Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8678

Email a.mazharian@bham.ac.uk

Dr Emmet McGrath

Dr  Emmet McGrath

Senior Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine

Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences

Dr. Emmet McGrath is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Consultant Chest Physician at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and the Birmingham Chest Clinic. His research and clinical interests lie in inflammatory lung disease specifically interstitial lung disease.

Telephone +44 (0)121 3713229

Email e.e.mcgrath@bham.ac.uk