Our team
Our Centre for Liver and Gastrointestinal Research at the University of Birmingham is led by a team of accomplished experts dedicated to advancing liver and gastrointestinal health. We work in partnership with the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Liver Unit, one of the largest liver transplant centres in the world, to bring together extensive knowledge and experience in liver disease, contributing to cutting-edge research and innovative treatments.
Principal Investigators
Principal Investigators
Professor Shishir Shetty
Professor in Liver Tumour Immunology and Honorary Consultant Hepatologist
Interim Director of the Centre for Liver and Gastrointestinal Research
Professor Patricia Lalor
Professor in Experimental Hepatology
Professor Ye Htun Oo
Professor of Autoimmune Liver Diseases and Translational Hepatology
Consultant Hepatologist
Professor Palak Trivedi
Professor of Cholestatic and Immune-mediated Liver Disease
Honorary Consultant Hepatologist
Dr Zania Stamataki
Associate Professor in Viral Immunology
Dr Chris Weston
Associate Professor in Experimental Hepatology
Dr Jake Mann
Birmingham Health Partners Clinician Scientist
Honorary Consultant Paediatric Hepatologist
Professor Philip Newsome
Honorary Professor in Experimental Hepatology
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
- Nguyet-Thin Luu - Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
- Daniel Patten
- Scott Davies
- Amber Bozward
- Aekkachai Tuekprakhon
- James Kennedy
Research Students
Research Students
PhD Students
- Megan Bannister
- Yiyu Fan (Kevin)
- Yuxin Li
- Nada Fallatah
- Kayani Kayani (Academic Clinical Fellow)
- Rebecca Jeyaraj (Paediatric Academic Clinical Fellow/BRC Fellow)
- Callum Riley - Joint PhD Bham/Oxford (Liver Medicine Trainee Doctor)
- Devnandan Chatterjee (Academic Clinical Fellow)
- Sean Morris - (ST4 in Gastroenterology)
- Yuxin Du
Clinical Research Fellows
Clinical Research Fellows
- Saad Rehman
- Timbyen Wuyep
- George Howell (not based in the CLGR)
- Sarah Al-Shakhshir
- Charlotte Sewell (BRC)
Academic Clinical Lecturers
Academic Clinical Lecturers
- Nasir Hussain
Managerial and Technical Staff
Managerial and Technical Staff
- Janine Fear - CLGR Research Manager
- Ayla O'Keeffe - Research Technician
- Jingwen Mao - Research Technician, Masters student
- Migena Tushe - Research Technician
- Nadiya Boyar - Lab Technician, BSL3 Technician
- Chiranjit Das - Bioinformatic Analyst
- Ayma Asif - Assistant Technical Specialist
NHS Staff in CLGR
NHS Staff in CLGR
Management
- Daniel Kearns - Head Biomedical Scientist, CLGR Lab Manager
Technical
- Kulvinder Gill - Senior Biomedical Scientist
- Jennifer Stoddart - Specialist Biomedical Scientist
- Mohammad Waseem - Healthcare Science Assistant
Administration
- Jayba Hassan - Database Manager (Hepatobiliary Surgery Dataset)
- Loraine Brown - Executive Assistant, Departmental Secretary
- Sian Cotton - Database Manager (NET/HCC Datasets)
- Jo Lawman - Database Manager (Transplant Dataset)
- Liz Darlow - Database Manager (Transplant Dataset)
- Stacey Kearns - CLGR Data Officer