Investigators in Paediatric-relevant Research

Researcher	Job title	Research Interests
Professor Simon Baron Cohen	Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology Director, Autism Research Centre	Autism Asperger Syndrome Sex differences and empathy Social Neuroscience
Dr Bon Kyoung Koo	Group Leader, Department of Genetics Investigator, Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute	Intestinal Stem Cell Regulation and Response
Professor Graham Burton	Mary Marshall and Arthur Walton Professor of Physiology of Reproduction Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Director of Centre for Trophoblast Research	Human placental development Placental involvement in miscarriage, intrauterine growth restriction and pre-eclampsia Effects of oxygen, hypoxia and oxidative stress on trophoblast differentiation and function
Professor Ed Bullmore	Head of Department, Department of Psychiatry Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI)	Addiction Autism Cognitive impairment Depressive disorders Eating disorders Obsessive compulsive disorder Schizophrenia
Professor Patrick Chinnery	Head of Department, Department of Clinical Neurosciences Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit	Mitochondrial diseases Spinocerebellar ataxia
Professor Timothy Cox	Professor, Department of Medicine	Molecular causation of inborn errors of metabolism Therapeutic research in lysosomal disorders
Dr Andrew Clark	Investigator, Department of Medicine Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Cambridge University Hospitals	Allergy Food allergy - peanut Anaphylaxis Immunotherapy
Professor Steve Charnock Jones	Professor of Reproductive Biology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology	Placental Development Mouse Models of Clear Cell Ovarian Cancer The role of Paroxonase 3 (PON3) in Development
Dr Francesco Colucci	University Reader in Immunology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology	Immune cells at the fetal-maternal interface Control of tumor growth by immunity Cell transplantation
Dr Miguel Constância	Senior Lecturer in Reproductive Biology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology	Imprinting, placental function and fetal growth Epigenetic basis of metabolic disease
Professor John Danesh	Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, Head of Department, Department of Public Health and Primary Care	Cardiovascular Epidemiology Screening and risk prediction Medicines development International vascular health Gene-lifestyle interplay Systems genomics
Professor Sadaf Farooqi	Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR)	Genetics of obesity
Professor Anne Ferguson Smith	Head of Department, Department of Genetics Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Group Leader: Ferguson-Smith Group	Stem cells and the epigenetic programme in vitro and in vivo Functional genomics and epigenomics Development, environment and disease
Dr Helen Firth	Consultant Clinical Geneticist	Application of new genomic technologies to improve diagnosis of severe developmental disorders
Professor Richard Gilbertson	Director, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, University of Cambridge	Childhood brain tumours Medulloblastom and ependymoma Neurobiology
Professor William Harris	Head of Department, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience	Birth defects Cancers Genetic disorders Visual impairments
Professor David J Lomas	Professor, Department of Radiology	Novel Body MR applications Imaging of the liver and hepatobiliary tracts New MR techniques for paediatric imaging Constrained Surface Controllers for 3 D data navigation
Professor Giovanna Mallucci	Professor, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, MRC Toxicology Unit	Alzheimer's disease dementias Prion diseases Protein misfolding Neurodegenerative disorders
Professor Ashley Moffett	Professor, Department of Pathology	Immunology of pregnancy Interactions between maternal Killer-cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptor (KIR) and fetal HLA-C molecules Culture of human trophoblast cells Immunogenetics of KIR/HLA-C variants linked to pre-eclampsia, puerperal sepsis and obstructed labour
Dr Matthew Murray	University Lecturer, Department of Pathology Academic Consultant Paediatric Oncologist	Solid tumours of childhood Biology of germ cell tumours Late effects of treatment Medical education
Dr James Nicholson	Consultant Paediatric Oncologist	Children's solid tumours Children's germ cell tumours Leukaemia
Professor Steve O'Rahilly	Head of Department and Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, Department of Clinical Biochemistry	Human studies of subjects with extreme phenotypes of obesity and insulin resistance Studies in cellular models of mutations found in candidate genes in humans In vivo models of the molecular pathogenesis of human diseases
Professor Lucy Raymond	Professor of Medical Genetics and Neurodevelopment, Department of Medical Genetics	Birth defects Cognitive impairment Genetic disorders Learning disabilities Human genetic mapping Sequence analysis
Professor Sylvia Richardson	Professor and Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit	Improved statistical techniques and algorithms Structural equation models Autoimmunity and inflammation Cellular immune responses and immune regulation Immunogenetics
Prof Gordon Smith	Professor and Head of Department, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology	Control of myometrial contractility Control of fetal maturation and adaptation at birth Use of statistical modeling to predict and understand causes of adverse pregnancy outcome
Professor Ken Smith	Professor and Head of Department, Medicine	Immune regulation Autoimmune disease Infection
Dr Suzanne Turner	Senior University Lecturer	Cancer and Apoptosis Lymphomagenesis
Professor Ludovic Vallier	Professor of Regenerative Medicine Department of Surgery	Human pluripotent stem cells Control of differentiation Disease modeling
Dr Frank Waldron-Lynch	Investigator, Experimental Medicine and Immunotherapeutics (EMIT), Cambridge Immunology Network	Autoimmune diseases Experimental Medicine Immunotherapeutics Type 1 diabetes
Dr Ian White	Programme Leader , MRC Biostatistics Unit	Statistical methods for handling missing data Heterogeneity in meta-analyses
Professor Linda Wicker	Professor of Immunogenetics	Type 1 diabetes Autoimmunity Cytokine/interleukin/chemokine receptors Antigen presentation T and B cell receptors Genetics Interleukin
Professor Geoff Woods	Professor and Personal Chair, Department of Medical Genetics	Primary microcephaly Mendelian disorders of painlessness and of excess pain Clinical support and molecular genetic diagnosis Translational studies to ascertain, study and classify people/families with genetic diseases