Staff

Miss Saaeha Rauz

Clinical Senior Lecturer/ Consultant Ophthalmologist

School of Immunity and Infection

Saaeha Rauz is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Academic Unit of Ophthalmology, School of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham and a Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, one of the largest dedicated eye units in Europe.

She provides a supra-regional referral clinical service specialising in (i) ocular surface diseases where the majority ...

Telephone +44 (0)121 507 6849

Email s.rauz@bham.ac.uk

Professor Karim Raza

Professor Karim Raza

Professor of Clinical Rheumatology and Honorary Consultant

School of Immunity and Infection

Karim Raza is Professor of Clinical Rheumatology at the University of Birmingham, UK. He qualified from Oxford in 1993 and achieved Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1996. From 2000-2003 he worked as an Arthritis Research UK clinical training fellow studying the regulation of leukocyte apoptosis in early inflammatory arthritis. Following the award of a PhD, he was appointed ...

Email k.raza@bham.ac.uk

Mr Peter Robert Richardson

Section Head, Flow Cytometry

School of Immunity and Infection

Peter Richardson has over 30 years experience in the immunophenotypic analysis of haematological malignancy and allied disorders.

He has collaborated on a number of research studies with academic staff over the years.

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 3824

Email p.r.richardson@bham.ac.uk

Professor Antal Rot

Professor Antal Rot

Professor of Immunology

School of Immunity and Infection

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 3454

Email a.rot@bham.ac.uk

Professor David Sansom

Professor David Sansom

Professor of Immune Cell Biology

School of Immunity and Infection

David Sansom is a Professor of Immune Cell Biology in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences.

David has published numerous papers in internationally recognised scientific journals mostly in the field of T cell immune regulation and its relevance to autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. He has received substantial grant funding from a ...

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 2268

Email d.m.sansom@bham.ac.uk

Dr Dagmar Scheel-Toellner

Dr Dagmar Scheel-Toellner

Senior Research Fellow/ AR UK Career Progression Fellow

School of Immunity and Infection

Dagmar Scheel-Toellner leads a research team that investigates the basic mechanism of joint inflammation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. She initially trained as a pharmacist, and the translation of her research on autoimmunity into therapeutic strategies is still an important long-term aim in her work. She closely collaborates with her clinical colleagues within the Rheumatology ...

Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8690

Email d.scheel@bham.ac.uk

Dr Jonathan Sherlock

Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology

School of Immunity and Infection

Jonathan Sherlock is Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology and works on the role of inflammatory cytokines in spondyloarthropathy in the context of development of better therapeutics for these conditions.

Telephone +44 (0)121 371 3243

Dr Shishir Shetty

Dr  Shishir Shetty

Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow and Honorary Consultant Hepatologist

School of Immunity and Infection

Shishir Shetty is a clinician scientist in the Centre for Liver Research and honorary consultant hepatologist at the Queen Elizabeth Liver Transplant Unit, Birmingham. He has received grant funding from the Wellcome Trust, the Core Charity and the Bardhan Research and Education Trust.

Shishir’s research focus is the regulation of leucocyte recruitment to the ...

Telephone +44 (0)121 4158700

Email s.shetty@bham.ac.uk

Dr John Shuttleworth

Dr John Shuttleworth

Senior Lecturer, BMedSc Programme Director

School of Immunity and Infection

John Shuttleworth is programme lead for the BMedSc course.

 

Email j.shuttleworth@bham.ac.uk

Dr Stuart Smith

Clinical Lecturer in Renal Medicine

School of Immunity and Infection

Lecturing in renal medicine Stuart Smith has clinical practice responsibilities at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital renal unit while also engaging in laboratory based research and teaching academic and clinical skills to medical undergraduates.

His current research activities focus on chronic kidney disease, stromal cell biology and the pathogenesis of renal fibrosis.

Telephone +44 (0)121 371 3265

Email s.w.smith.1@bham.ac.uk