Section of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience

Staff List

Professor Chris Inglehearn

SECTION HEAD, PROFESSOR OF MOLECULAR OPHTHALMOLOGY

Contact: Mrs Cheryl Gale, PA to Section Head – Tel: 0113 3438545, c.gale@leeds.ac.uk
Mrs Kelly Springell, Lab Manager - Tel: 0113 3438445, k.springell@leeds.ac.uk

VISION RESEARCH GROUP; RETINAL DYSTROPHIES

• Professor Chris Inglehearn – Group Leader
  Mr Farrar Abi - PhD Student
• Mr Martin McKibbin – Consultant Ophthalmologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer
• Syed Hussain Jafri - Research Assistant
• Dr Kamron Khan - Clinical Research Fellow
  Dr Salina Siddiqui - Clinical Research Fellow
• Mr Ian Simmons – Consultant Ophthalmologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer

VISION RESEARCH GROUP; ANTERIOR SEGMENT DYSGENESIS

• Dr Manir Ali - Group Leader, Senior Research Fellow
• Ms Layal Abi Farraj - PhD Student
• Dr Kamron Khan - Clinical Research Fellow
• Dr Salina Siddiqui - Clinical Research Fellow

MICROCEPHALY AND CANCER GROUP

• Dr Sandra Bell – Group Leader, Senior Research Fellow
• Aeahah Awaji - PhD Student
• Miss Rawiah Abdullah Alsiary - PhD Student
• Dr Victoria Cookson - Research Fellow
• Mr Yousef Hawsawi - PhD Student
• Mr Tom Maisey - Research Technician
• Miss Julie Richardson - PhD Student

MICROCEPHALY AND NEUROGENESIS RESEARCH GROUP

• Dr Jacquelyn Bond - Group Leader, Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow
• Miss Ruth Binns - PhD Student

CILIOPATHY GROUP

• Professor Colin Johnson – Group Leader, Reader
• Dr Matthew Adams – Research Fellow
• Zakia Abdelhamed - PhD Student
  Mrs Shaban Khan - Research Nurse
• Clare Logan - Research Assistant
  Ms Subaashini Natavaja - Technician
• Katarzyna Szymanska - Research Assistant
• Gabrielle Wheway - Research Fellow

VISION RESEARCH GROUP; EYE/TOOTH SYNDROMES

• Dr Alan Mighell – Group Leader, Senior Lecturer; Honorary Consultant in Oral Medicine, Leeds Dental Institute

CELL BIOLOGY

• Dr Ewan Morrison - Tenure Track Scientist

PARKINSON’S DISEASE RESEACH GROUP

• Dr Philip Robinson – Group Leader, Reader
• Dr Fatima Elmehdwi – PhD student
• Mr Tom Thompson – Research Technician

VISION RESEARCH GROUP; RETINAL VASCULATURE

• Dr Carmel Toomes – Group Leader, Royal Society Principal Research Fellow
• Mr Musallam Al-Araimi – PhD Student
  Miss Penelope La-Borde - Research Assistant
• Mr James Poulter - PhD Student
  Dr Katherine Roper - Research Fellow