Staff Profile
Sam Higginbotham
Research Assistant
- Email: sam.higginbotham@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Fibrosis Research Group,
Bioscience Institute,
4th Floor, William Leech Building,
Medical School,
Framlington Place,
Newcastle University,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE2 4HH
Background
I completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield and joined the Newcastle Fibrosis Research Group as a research assistant in 2022.
My primary research focuses on the epigenetic changes that occur in liver cells upon the commencement and progression of fibrosis in a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease context.
Area(s) of expertise: epigenetics, fibrosis, fibroblasts, liver
Education
- PhD Studentship - Fat, fibroblasts, and fibrosis; how deposits of adipose tissue ameliorate dermal fibrosis - The University of Sheffield - (2018-2022)
- MBiolSci Molecular biology - The University of Sheffield - (2014-2018)