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The William Harvey Research Institute - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Our team

Principal Investigators

Prof Costantino Pitzalis (Centre Lead)

  • Felice Rivellese (Senior Clinical Lecturer)​
  • Mohey El Shikh (Senior Lecturer)​
  • Alessandra Nerviani (Senior Clinical Lecturer)​
  • Chiara Giacomassi (Clinical Lecturer)​
  • Sook Ling Lai (Postdoctoral Researcher)​

    PhD Students
  • Susan Wang​
  • Marieke Werle​
  • Giulia Maria Ghirardi

    Honorary/Visiting
  • Marie Astrid Boutet (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)​

Prof Francesco Dell’Accio (ReGen)

  • Suzanne Eldridge (Senior Lecturer of Musculoskeletal Regenerative
  • Medicine)​
  • Fatma Scerif (Fellow)​
  • Victoria Lapinska (Technician)​
  • Nickil Rodrigues (Technician)​
  • Debasmita Mukhopadhyay (Technician)​

    PhD Students
  • Melody Deniz​

Dr. Shafaq Sikander (Sensory Neurophysiology)

  • Sara Caxaria (Postdoctoral Research Assistant)​
  • Alice Fuller (Postdoctoral Research Assistant)​
  • Petek Celik (Technician)​

    PhD Students
  • Sabah Bharde​
  • Brian Herath​
  • Romy Evans​
  • Niloofar Ketabi 

Prof Michele Bombardieri (Argos)

  • Elisa Corsiero (Lecturer)​
  • Elena Pontarini (Lecturer)​
  • Lucas Jagemann (Postdoctoral Research Assistant)​

    PhD Students
  • Mattia Caliste​

    Honorary/Visiting
  • Sofia Grigoriadou (Honorary Research Fellow)​
  • Davide Lucchesi (Postdoctoral Researcher)​
  • Edoardo Prediletto (Postdoctoral Researcher) 

Dr. Myles Lewis (SLE Biostatistics) 

  • Cankut Cubuk (Senior Bioinformatician)​
  • Elisabetta Sciacca (Bioinformatician)​
  • Rachel Lau (Bioinformatician)​
  • Anna Surace (Postdoctoral Researcher)​

    PhD Students
  • Giovanni Giorli​
  • Sotiria Manou – Stathopoulou​
  • Ioanna Kontra​

Prof Dylan Morrissey (SEM Academic Lead)

  • Manuela Angioi (Senior Lecturer)​
  • Simon Lack (Senior Lecturer) ​
  • Stuart Miller (Senior Lecturer)  ​
  • Catherine Lester (Academic)​
  • Ian Beasley (Academic)​
  • Zubair Haleem (Clinical Research Team Lead)​
  • Trevor Prior (Senior Clinical Lecturer)​
  • Ian Griffiths (Lecturer)​
  • Caroline Jubb (Lecturer)​
  • Brad Neal (Lecturer & Fellow) ​
  • Jose Salles (Research Fellow)​
  • Adele Hill (Research Assistant)​
  • Gillian Morrey (Centre Administrator)​

    PhD Students
  • Saleh Alsaleh​
  • Cabella Lowe​
  • Anna Hebda-Boon​
  • Fatma Bosnina

Prof Alberto Mantovani

Core Laboratory

  • Erika Cadoni (Laboratory Manager)
  • Manasi Sayilekshmy (Postdoctoral Research Assistant)
  • Edyta Jaworska (Research Assistant)
  • Manzoor Ahmed (Research Technician)
  • Pedro Martinez De Paz (Postdoctoral Research Assistant)
  • Federico Abatecola (Research Assistant)

Clinical Trials Management

  • Liliane Fossati – Jimack (Clinical Trial and Research Manager)
  • Joanna Peel (Trial Manager)
  • Louise Warren (Trial Manager)
  • Ishraat Miah (Study co-ordinator)
  • Inthushaa Indrakumar (Study-co-ordinator & Monitor)​

Clinical Trials Medical

  • Marta Sobrado (Research Nurse)
  • Ayat Azhar (Clinical Trials Practitioner)
  • Mayisha Chowdhury (Clinical Trials Practitioner)

Centre Administration

  • Marianna Tesone (Centre Manager)
  • Valerie Powell (Centre Administrator)
  • Vladan Petrovic (IT Systems & Projects Manager)
  • Laura Dexter (BRC Manager)
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