Membership is open to academic/research staff at the University of Essex who are actively engaged in collaborative research with medical professionals in regional Hospital NHS Trusts or wish to explore collaborative opportunities. Membership is also open to medical professionals of regional Hospital NHS Trusts who are actively engaged in collaborative research with academics or wish to explore collaborative opportunities.

University of Essex

Dr Greg Brooke

School of Life Sciences, University of Essex

Research interests: Factors that promote tumour growth and therapy resistance in prostate and breast cancer.

Professor Nelson Fernandez

School of Life Sciences, University of Essex

Research interests: Immunological receptors; Reproductive Immunology and Autoimmunity.

Dr Andrew Harrison

School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Essex

Research interests: Bioinformatics; Medical Statistics.

Professor Berthold Lausen

School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Essex

Research interests: biostatistics, epidemiology, systems biology, improving the validity for molecular signatures of cancer progression by gene expression.

Dr Metodi Metodiev

School of Life Sciences, University of Essex

Research interests: Cell signalling; Proteomics; Biological mass spectrometry; Cancer biology.

Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Assistive Biomedical Technology and Systems, Healthcare robotics.

Dr Brandon Reeder

School of Life Sciences, University of Essex

Research interests: Development of haemoglobin-based blood substitutes; Biochemical mechanisms of disease states, including oxidative reactions in conditions of haemolysis (acute renal failure following rhabdomyolysis and delayed vasospasm following subarachnoid haemorrhage).

Dr Philip Reeves

School of Life Sciences, University of Essex

Research interests: Molecular mechanisms of Retinitis Pigmentosa caused by inherited mutations in rhodopsin.

Dr Ralf Zwacka

School of Life Sciences, University of Essex

Research interests: Mesenchymal stem cells and cancer therapy; Apoptosis pathways and treatment resistance mechanisms in cancer; Cell death regulation in stem cells.