Members

The Row Fogo Centre for Research into Ageing and the Brain is guided by a distinguished advisory board:

Professor David Argyle; Professor Joanna Wardlaw; Professor Frank-Erik de Leeuw; Dr Fergus Doubal; Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Sal
Professor Adam Waldman, Professor Giles Hardingham, Professor David Newby; Dr Anne Marie Coriat; Ms Chloe Kippen
Professor David Argyle: Vice Principal and Head of College of Medicine & Veterinary, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Chair of the Row Fogo Centre
Professor Joanna Wardlaw: Row Fogo Centre Director, Chair of Applied Neuroimaging; Head of Neuroimaging Sciences and Edinburgh Imaging; Foundation Chair at the Dementia Research Institute
Professor Frank-Erik de Leeuw: External Scientific Advisor, Professor of Cerebrovascular Disease, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Dr Fergus Doubal: PPIE Advisor, Honorary Reader in Stroke Medicine & Consultant Stroke Physician
Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman: Scientific Advisor, Professor of Clinical Neurology
Professor Adam Waldman: Scientific Advisor, Chair of Neuroradiology
Professor Giles Hardingham: Head of UK DRI University of Edinburgh Research Centre
Professor David Newby: Head of BHF Centre of Research Excellence, University of Edinburgh
Dr Anne-Marie Coriat: College Representative for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Ms Chloe Kippen: Director of College Advancement and Health Philanthropy, University of Edinburgh Development Trust, pending identifying a long-term representative

 

Row Fogo Centre Core Staff

Dr Maria Valdés Hernández; Dr Francesca Chappell; Dr Rosalind Brown; Dr Fergus Doubal
Dr Tim Wilkinson; Dr Angela Jochems; Dr Carmen Arteaga-Reyes; Gillian Joyce; Jean Balchin
Dr Maria Valdés Hernández: Row Fogo Lecturer in Medical Image Analysis, Centre Scientific Committee Member
Dr Francesca Chappell: Senior Medical Statistician, Scientific Committee Member
Dr Rosalind Brown: Research Manager, Scientific Research Coordinator for Studies on Small Vessel Disease
Dr Fergus Doubal: PPIE Advisor, Honorary Reader in Stroke Medicine & Consultant Stroke Physician
Dr Tim Wilkinson: Senior Clinical Research Fellow
Dr Angela Jochems: Research Fellow
Dr Carmen Arteaga-Reyes: Clinical Research Fellow
Gillian Joyce: Scientific Communications Officer
Jean Balchin: Scientific Communications Officer

 

Doctoral Row Fogo Fellows funded by the Row Fogo Centre

Dr Carmen Arteaga-Reyes; Keelin Ridge
Dr Carmen Arteaga-Reyes: Clinical Research Fellow in Studies of Cerebral Small Vessel, Deanery of Clinical Sciences
Keelin Ridge: PhD student in Precision Medicine DTP; Thesis title: Determining cerebral small vessel function and flow in small vessel disease

 

Row Fogo Centre Associated Research Staff including Intermediate and Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr Ellen Backhouse; Dr Roberto Duarte Coello; Dr Dani Ruiz Gabarre; Dr Ylenia Giarratano; Dr Garyfallia Gouna
Dr Dorian Gouzou; Dr John McFadden; Dr Michael Stringer; Dr Una Clancy, Dr Gordon Blair
Dr Ian Maccormick, Dr Stewart Wiseman, Dr Catriona Wimberley, Dr Sarah McGlasson, Dr Mariia Dvoriashyna
Dr Ellen Backhouse: Stroke Association Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Dr Roberto Duarte Coello: Hilary & Galen Weston Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Dani Ruiz Gabarre: Research Fellow
Dr Ylenia Giarratano: BHF Turing Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Garyfallia Gouna: Dementia Research Institute Research Fellow
Dr Dorian Gouzou: Neuri SCANDAN Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Dr John McFadden: Dementias Platform UK Data Analyst and Manager
Dr Michael Stringer: Stroke Association Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Fellow, Medical Physicist
Dr Karen Ferguson: BBSRC Research Fellow in Medical Image Analysis
Dr Úna Clancy: Scottish Clinical Research Excellence Development Scheme (SCREDS) Clinical Lecturer
Dr Gordon Blair: Senior Neurology StR, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Dr Ian Maccormick: Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Ophthalmology
Dr Stewart Wiseman: Honorary Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Dr Catriona Wimberley: Chancellor's Fellow - Health & Life, School of Physics and Astronomy
Dr Sarah McGlasson: Research Fellow, UK Dementia Research Institute
Dr Mariia Dvoriashyna: Chancellor’s Fellow, School of Mathematics

 

Doctoral Fellows affiliated with the Row Fogo Centre

Daniela Jaime Garcia, Sam Gibbon, Benjamin Jin, Angelina Kancheva, Ronja Kremer
Krystal Laing; Ben Philps; Jesse Phitidis; Rebecca Robertson
Nada Alamoudi: PhD student in Adaptive and Neural Computation; Thesis title: From Research to Clinic: AI-Driven Neuroimaging for Automated Analysis and Quantification of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Using CT Scans
Daniela Jaime Garcia: PhD student in Translational Neuroscience; Thesis title: Investigating the role of endothelial cell and pericyte dysfunction in small vessel disease though a translational perspective
Sam Gibbon: PhD student in Clinical Brain Sciences; Thesis title: Optic disc pallor in neurodegenerative diseases
Angelina Kancheva: PhD student in Precision Medicine DTP; Thesis title: Moving to a data informed understanding of cerebrovascular small vessel disease
Grant Kirkwood: PhD student in Clinical Brain Sciences; Thesis title: Analysis and quantification of the waste clearance in the human brain and its role in neurodegeneration, vascular disease and neuroinflammation
Ronja Kremer: Clinical Training Research Fellow & PhD student in Regenerative Medicine
Krystal Laing: PhD student in Translational Neuroscience
Ben Philps: PhD student at the School of Informatics; Thesis title: Domain Generalization, Adaption and Model Robustness for improving trustworthiness in segmentation of stroke, White Matter Hyperintensities, abnormalities in brain MRI and related medical imaging domains
Jesse Phitidis: PhD student in Clinical Brain Sciences; Thesis title: AI-powered computational support system for cerebrovascular diseases from medical imaging
Rebecca Robertson: PhD student in Precision Medicine DTP; Thesis title: Endothelial cell extracellular vesicles in cerebral small vessel disease
Dr Beth Whittington: PhD student in Clinical Brain Sciences

 

Doctoral Fellows associated with the Row Fogo Centre

Benjamin Jin; Miracle Ozzoude; Dr Bastien Rioux
Benjamin Jin: PhD student in Precision Medicine DTP; Thesis title: Development of a machine learning method to automatically quantify calcified intracranial atheroma on CT imaging and assess risk of future neurovascular disease in a national dataset
Miracle Ozzoude: PhD student Precision Medicine DTP; Thesis title: Endotyping neurodegeneration through the eye using multimodal retinal imaging
Dr Bastien Rioux: PhD student in Clinical Brain Sciences; Thesis title: The role of interferons in the risk of stroke and dementia

 

Associated Senior Research Staff

Professor Anna Williams, Professor Karen Horsburgh, Professor William Whiteley, Professor Mark Bastin
Professor Andrew Farrall, Professor James Boardman, Professor Miguel O. Bernabeu, Professor Simon Cox
Professor Anna Williams: Group Leader, Professor of Regenerative Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist
Professor Karen Horsburgh: Personal Chair of Neuroscience
Professor William Whiteley: Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology
Professor Mark Bastin: Personal Chair of Brain Imaging
Professor Andrew Farrall: Honorary Professor of Neuroimaging & Education, Consultant Neuroradiologist
Professor James Boardman: Professor of Neonatal Medicine
Professor Miguel O. Bernabeu: Professor of Computational Medicine
Professor Simon Cox: Director of the Lothian Birth Cohort Studies

 

Professor Colin Smith; Professor David Hunt; Professor Emily Sena; Professor Malcolm MacLeod
Professor Tomasz Guzik; Professor Adriana Tavares; Dr Michael Thrippleton; Dr Susana Muñoz Maniega
Professor Colin Smith: Chair of Neuropathology; Director of Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Professor David Hunt: Chair of Neuroinflammation Medicine, Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow & Honorary Consultant in Neurology
Professor Emily Sena: Professor of Meta-science and Translational Medicine
Professor Malcolm MacLeod: Professor of Neurology and Translational Neuroscience
Professor Tomasz Guzik: Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor Adriana Tavares: Personal Chair of Translational Molecular Imaging, Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences
Dr Michael Thrippleton: Research Fellow, HCPC-registered Clinical Scientist, Brain Research Imaging Centre Medical Physicist
Dr Susana Muñoz Maniega: Research Fellow, Diffusion Tensor MRI Imaging

 

Dr Tom MacGillivray; Dr Axel Montagne; Dr Barry McColl; Dr Blanca Díaz Castro; Dr Conor McQuaid
Dr Owen Dando; Dr Jian Gan; Dr Kristiina Rannikmäe; Dr Tom Russ; Dr Neshika Samarasekera
Dr Tom MacGillivray: Senior Research Fellow & Image Analysis Core Laboratory Manager
Dr Axel Montagne: Chancellor's Fellow & UK DRI Group Leader
Dr Barry McColl: UK Dementia Research Institute Fellow & Senior Lecturer, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences
Dr Blanca Díaz Castro: UK Dementia Research Institute Fellow
Dr Conor McQuaid: Research Fellow
Dr Owen Dando: UK DRI Lead Bioinformatician, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Jian Gan: UK Dementia Research Institute Fellow & Programme Leader
Dr Kristiina Rannikmae: Research Fellow
Dr Tom Russ: Reader in Old Age Psychiatry
Dr Neshika Samarasekera: Consultant neurologist, NHS Lothian; NRS Research Fellow and Stroke Association Senior Clinical Lecturer

 

Row Fogo Centre Research Support and Related Staff

Dr Dominic Job, Ms Charlene Hamid, Ms Eleni Sakka, Ms Charlotte Jardine
Ms Iona Hamilton, Ms Gayle Barclay, Ms Donna McIntyre, Ms Ciara Whitcroft
Dr Dominic Job: Senior Research Data Manager
Ms Charlene Hamid: Lead Ophthalmic Imager & Analyst, Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility
Ms Eleni Sakka: Research Associate, Image Data Research Manager
Ms Charlotte Jardine: Superintendent Radiographer - Edinburgh Imaging Facility WGH and RIE
Ms Iona Hamilton: Senior Research MRI Radiographer
Mr Jeb Palmer: Programmer
Ms Gayle Barclay: Research Radiographer
Ms Donna McIntyre: Research Radiographer
Ms Ciara Whitcroft: Research Radiographer

 

Visiting research staff and students

Every year, the Row Fogo Centre for Research into Ageing and the Brain hosts number of local and international research staff and students supporting their careers with joint publications, and being enriched with their expertise  into discoveries in small vessel disease research.

Visiting Row Fogo Fellows, Postgraduate, PhD, MSc or short-term Undergraduate Research Fellows

Dr Yu-Yuan Xu; Francesca Pentimalli Biscaretti di Ruffia
Dr Alexandra Morozova; Dr Shivank Keni; Wonjung Park; Armina Mahootchi
Dr Yu-Yuan Xu: Neurologist
Francesca Pentimalli Biscaretti di Ruffia: PhD candidate in Translational Neuroscience; Project; Do retinal vascular features vary with time and associate with cerebral vascular reactivity in patients following mild stroke?
Dr Alexandra Morozova: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; project on perivascular spaces in relation to depression and anxiety in STRADL and LBC1936 cohorts
Dr Shivank Keni: NHS Lothian; project on deep learning detection of haemorrhages and classification of their subtype from brain images
Wonjung Park: KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea; project on shape model of brain structures using deep learning
Saniya Sethi: University of Nottingham; project on pictorial review of presence of SVD radiological features in rare diseases, and manual delineation of ground truth segmentations for ongoing projects
Armina Mahootchi: University of Edinburgh, Undergraduate medical student; project on manual delineation of ground truth segmentations for ongoing projects
Yu Wang: MSc Integrative Neurosciences; project on dynamics of WMH post-mild stroke

 

Former Visiting Row Fogo Fellows and Students

Dr Yajun Cheng; Dr Junfang Zhang; Dr Dillys Liu; Dr Lorena Jiménez Sánchez
Tetiana Poliakova; Ingrid Tsang; Esther Janssen; Kim Wiegertjes
Dr Yajun Cheng: Visiting Researcher
Dr Junfang Zhang: Visiting Researcher
Dr Dillys Liu: Visiting Researcher
Dr Lorena Jiménez Sánchez: Wellcome PhD Student in Translational Neuroscience
Tetiana Poliakova: MSc Student,  Biomedicine, Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden)
Ingrid Tsang: MScR Student, Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CMS) "Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Repair" programme
Esther Janssen: MSc Biomedical Sciences – Psychopharmacology and Pathophysiology student, Radboud Univesity Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Kim Wiegertjes: Erasmus+  PhD Student, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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