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
Birmingham Health Partners Clinician Scientist
Honorary Consultant Paediatric Hepatologist
Developing PI
Springboard Fellow
Developing PI
Professor Philip Newsome
Honorary Professor in Experimental Hepatology
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
- Nguyet-Thin Luu - Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
- Daniel Patten
- Amber Bozward
- Aekkachai Tuekprakhon
- Arzoo Patel
- Kieran James
- Taylor Richards
Clinical Research Fellows and Research Students
Clinical Research Fellows and Research Students
- Alec Rapson (Academic Clinical Fellow and PhD Student)
- Devnandan Chatterjee (Academic Clinical Fellow and PhD Student)
- Kayani Kayani (Academic Clinical Fellow and PhD Student)
- Sean Morris (Academic Clinical Fellow and PhD Student)
- Abhishek Rao (BRC Clinical Research Fellow)
- Charlotte Sewell (BRC Clinical Research Fellow)
- Rebecca Jeyaraj (BRC Clinical Research Fellow and PhD Student)
- Saad Rehman (Clinical Research Fellow)
- Sanghamitra Dey (Clinical Research Fellow)
- Timbyen Wuyep (Clinical Research Fellow and MD student)
- George Howell (Clinical Research Fellow and MD Student)
- Sarah Al-Shakhshir (Clinical Research Fellow and PhD Student)
- Callum Riley (Liver Medicine Trainee Doctor and PhD Student, jointly with Bham/Oxford)
- Megan Bannister (PhD Student)
- Yuxin Du (PhD Student)
- Yuxin Li (PhD Student)
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
- Tohfa Ahmad – CLGR Data Officer