Many congratulations to the following members of NDCN who have all been awarded the title of Associate Professor.
William Clarke is a Wellcome Career Development Fellow and head of the MR Spectroscopy group at OxCIN. His work focusses on developing new methods for magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). Using similar methods to MR imaging (MRI). His work seeks to develop new ways of acquiring multi-voxel spectroscopic information to measure chemical dynamics and cellular microstructure across the brain.
Yin Dong is a MRC Career Devleopment Fellow, Head of Neuromuscular Disorders Group at the WIMM and Manager of functional diagnostics for the National Referral Service for Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes. The focus of his group's research is to carry out fundamental and translational research into disorders of the neuromuscular junction. To achieve this, they use a multidisciplined approach combining techniques in biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biology and electrophysiology.
Betina Ip is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow and Hugh Price Fellow in Neuroscience at Jesus College. Her research looks at the influence of the environment on brain function, investigating how sensory experience affects visual development and neural plasticity. Her lab uses advanced multimodal brain imaging, especially functional MR Spectroscopy (fMRS), behavioural measures and digital technology, including virtual reality.
Jasmina Cehajic-Kapetanovicis is a MRC Clinician Scientist and Consultant Vitreo-Retinal Surgeon. She leads a research group focused on vision restoration through interventional genetics and robotics. Her research interests include developing therapies for rare inherited retinal diseases, as well as more common blinding conditions such as geographic atrophy, optic neuropathies and retinal vascular disease.
Linxin Li is an NIHR Advanced Fellow at the Wolfson Centre for the Prevention of Stroke and Dementia. Her research focuses on understanding the epidemiology, aetiology, and prognosis of strokes at younger ages. She currently leads a fully phenotyped regional study (Thames Valley Young Stroke Study) and a national study (National Young Stroke Study) to improve our understanding of the underlying mechanisms and long-term impact of strokes at younger ages.
Ashwini Oswal is a MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow at the Brain Network Dynamics Unit and an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Oxford University Hospitals. His research adopts a multidisciplinary approach, using imaging, computational and electrophysiological approaches to discover how neurological disease phenotypes relate to specific brain network dysfunction.
Andreas Themistocleous is a MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow within the Neural Injury Group. His research is focused on understanding the mechanisms of neuropathic pain. He uses a combination of techniques, such as microneurography, threshold tracking, intraepidermal nerve fibre density assessment and quantitative sensory testing, to assess the functional and structural integrity of the peripheral nervous system.
Sarah Vollam co-leads the NIHR-funded Enhanced Recovery After Critical Care (ERACC) programme of research, aiming to design and test an enhanced care pathway for critical care survivors. She is also an Oxford BRC sub-theme lead in the Digital Health from Hospital to Home theme. This includes leading the PROSPECT study, using wearable monitoring and machine learning to improve detection of deterioration following critical illness both in hospital and at home.