Newcastle University

Current Work

“Why Newcastle?”
I have been asked this many times since I accepted my current post. I am very interested in Haematology and the Northern Deanery was the only Deanery offering a post in Academic Haematology when I was considering applying for the Academic Foundation Programme. I have also visited Newcastle many times before and enjoyed both the vibrant city and the gorgeous surrounding countryside enormously.

My work
I am under the supervision of Prof Anne Dickinson and Prof Graham Jackson. They are extremely supportive and have helped me a great deal to settle in and get started. We are interested in the immunobiology of haematopoietic stem cell transplant and that of Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD). I am also involved in an audit looking at grading and monitoring of chronic GvHD with Dr Matt Collin. I also attend clinics when possible, as well as cover on-call shifts in General Medicine in the Royal Victoria Infirmary.

• Fairbairn-Smith L, Cope W, Robinson B, Kamali F, Wynne H. Effect of provision of the NHS NPSA oral anticoagulant therapy patient information pack upon patients' knowledge and anticoagulant control. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2011, 9(1), 231-233.
• Alcántara JI, Cope TE, Cope W, Weisblatt EJ. Auditory temporal-envelope processing in high-functioning children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Neuropsychologia 2012, 50(7), 1235-1251.
• Atarod S, Cope W, Norden J, Collin M, Dickinson AM. miR-146a expression in graft-versus-host disease. In: 38th Annual Meeting of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT). 2012, Geneva, Switzerland: Nature Publishing Group.
• Atarod S, Cope W, Norden J, Collin M, Dickinson AM. Role of miR-146a-5p in Graft-versus-Host Disease. In: European Congress of Immunology. 2012, Glasgow, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.