Current Student Profiles

Find out about our current students and what they think about living and working in Newcastle

Biology of Ageing

  • Elizabeth Andrew (The Pentose Phosphate Pathway (PPP) and the response to uncapped telomeres)
  • Evelyn Barron (Healthy Ageing Phenotype: characterisation and measurement)
  • Rafal Czapiewski (Role of telomerase for stress and energy signalling in senescence and under dietary restriction)
  • Abhyuday Deshpande (Investigating the mechanisms that maintain senescence in budding yeast)
  • Hannah Gautrey (DNA methylation during ageing: Impact of dietary restriction and association with age-related frailty)
  • Dean Hallam (The role of telomeres and telomerase activity in ageing cultivating of human limbal stem cells)
  • Laura Wiley (Exploring the Role of Biomarkers of Ageing in Modulating Physical, Cognitive and Sensory Outcomes of Frailty)
  • James Wordsworth (Examination of the Mechanisms Underlying the Bystander Effect Caused by Senescent Cells )

Clinical, Nutritional and Interventional Studies

  • Victoria Ewan (Exploring the link between oral bacteria and hospital acquired pneumonia in hip fracture patients using a novel screening assay)
  • Emma Fletcher (Improving Tolerability and Concordance with Antiplatelet Therapy in Older People)
  • Iain McCallum (The role of stem cells in early colorectal carcinogenesis)
  • Heather Moore (Exercise, Cognition, and Brain Vitality)
  • Sarah Moore (Physical rehabilitation and metabolism following stroke)
  • Brendan Payne (Does nucleoside analogue anti-retroviral therapy cause acceleration of age-associated somatic mitochondrial DNA mutation?)
  • Caroline Shaw (Dietary patterns: Responses to lifestyle interventions in the peri-retirement window)

Dementia, Neurodegenerative Disorders and Stroke

  • Laura Barrett (Exploring epigenetic biomarkers in post-stroke cognitive function)
  • Matthew Burke (Mechanisms of Degeneration and Regeneration in Post Stroke Dementia)
  • Vincent Foster (Neurovascular Integrity and Function During Normal Ageing)
  • Elizabeth Gemmell (Neuropathological substrates of Dementia)
  • Shane McParland (Quantitative evaluation of alpha synuclein pathology)

Mitochondrial Disorders

  • Matthew Bates (Cardiac manifestations of mitochondrial disease: prevalence and pathogenetic mechanisms)
  • Helen Bogle (Fight Alpers’)
  • Emma Burvill (Protein Metabolism)
  • Martin Meagher (Mitochondrial DNA damage and repair)
  • Adya Misra (Investigating lipomas associated with Myoclonic epilepsy and ragged red fibres (MERRF))
  • Thiloke Ratnaike (Mitochondrial DNA Deletion Disease: mechanisms and clinical perspectives)
  • Kyle Thompson (Mitochondrial Gene Expression in Health and Disease)
  • Casey Wilson (Investigation of Molecular Pathologies in Human Mitochondrial mRNA Maturation)
  • John Yarham (Determinants and Prediction of Germline Transmission for Mitochondrial tRNA (MTT) Mutations)

Modelling the ageing process

  • Piero Dalle Pezze (TOR Kinase - A Complex Switch Controlling Development and Ageing in Response to Nutrients and Insulin)
  • David Dolan (A systems and evolutionary approach to DNA damage and cellular senescence)
  • Richard Tomsett (Missing Links: How Neural Developmental Factors Influence Network Topology and Behaviour)

Information on some of our previous students and what they are doing now can be found in the alumni profiles.