Staff in Clinical Immunology Services

Meet the team behind the Clinical Immunology Services.

Director of Clinical Immunology Services

Professor Alex Richter
Professor and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Immunology
Staff profile for Professor Alex Richter, Director of the Clinical Immunology Services, Professor and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Immunology, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham.

Our core team

Professor Sylvie Freeman - Deputy Director of Clinical Immunology Services and Professor of ImmunoHaematology
Ashutosh Sharma - General Manager
Dr Adrian Shields - Associate Professor and Consultant Clinical Immunologist
Professor Saiju Jacob - Honorary Professor (Neuroimmunology) and Consultant Neurologist

Technical Staff

The Department is supported by a team of six Medical Laboratory Assistants, 13 Biomedical Laboratory Scientists and five Clinical Scientists.

Midlands Integrated Reporting for Haemato-Oncology (MIRHO)

Our MIRHO team has expanded - please visit the MIRHO website for further information on our team members.

Haemato-oncology, Cell Function and Immuno-phenotyping

Lead for Haemato-oncology

Sylvie Freeman (Deputy Director)

Clinical Scientists

Nick McCarthy (Clinical R&D lead, AML trials)

Hayder Hussein

Sarah Terjesen

Biomedical Scientists (BMS1)

Mark Fellows

Genevieve Panaro

Kamila Silverio Fernadez

Neuroimmunology/Autoimmune serology/Immunochemistry

Clinical Scientist

Siobhan Young

Biomedical Scientist (BMS2)

Zaheer Afzal

David Birch

Biomedical Scientist (BMS1)

Bilal Jeewa

Amanjoyt Bahra

Beena Emmanuel

Claire Backhouse (Trainee Biomedical Scientist)

Doreen Lau (Medical Laboratory Assistant MLA)

Research and Development

Senior Research Fellow

Naeem Khan (R & D)

Jen Heaney (R & D)

Research Fellow

Sian Faustini - R & D

PhD

Akshay Patel (Surgeon)

Danai Bagkou (R & D)

R & D

Daniele Fairweather Tipping (BMS1)

Specimen Reception

Medical Laboratory Assistant (MLA)

Lynsey Dunbar - Section Head/Senior MLA

Quality Manager/Assurance