The Row Fogo Centre for Research into Ageing and the Brain is guided by a distinguished advisory board: Image Professor Joannna Wardlaw, Professor Frank-Erik de Leeuw, Professor David Argyle, Dr Fergus Doubal Image Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Professor Adam Waldman, Professor Giles Hardingham, Professor David Newby Image Dr Anne Marie Coriat, Dr Maria Valdés Hernández, Dr Francesca Chappell, Dr Rosalind Brown, Ms Chloe Kippen 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 Professor David Argyle: Vice Principal and Head of College of Medicine & Veterinary, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine 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 REA University of Edinburgh Research Centre Dr Anne Marie Coriat: College Representative 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 Ms Chloe Kippen: Director of College Advancement and Health Philanthropy Core Staff Image Gillian Joyce, Jean Balchin, Naomi Lennox Gillian Joyce: Scientific Communications Officer Jean Balchin: Scientific Communications Officer Naomi Lennox: CCBS Senior Administrative Assistant for Division of Neuroimaging Sciences Associated Research Staff Image Professor Anna Williams, Professor Karen Horsburgh, Professor William Whiteley, Professor Mark Bastin Image Professor Andrew Farrall, Professor James Boardman, Dr Tom MacGillivray, Professor Miguel O. Bernabeu 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 Dr Tom MacGillivray: Senior Research Fellow & Image Analysis Core Laboratory Manager Professor Miguel O. Bernabeu: Professor of Computational Medicine Image Dr Michael Stringer, Dr Michael Thrippleton, Dr Ellen Backhouse, Dr Gordon Blair Image Dr Úna Clancy, Dr Owen Dando, Dr Roberto Duarte Coello, Dr Dani Ruiz Gabarre Dr Michael Stringer: Stroke Association Post-Doctoral Fellow, Research Fellow, Medical Physicist Dr Michael Thrippleton: Research Fellow, HCPC-registered Clinical Scientist Dr Ellen Backhouse: Research Fellow, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences Dr Gordon Blair: Princess Margaret Research Development Fellow, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences Dr Úna Clancy: Scottish Clinical Research Excellence Development Scheme (SCREDS) Clinical Lecturer Dr Owen Dando: Research Fellow Dr Roberto Duarte Coello: Research Fellow Dr Dani Ruiz Gabarre: Research Fellow Image Dr Ylenia Giarratano, Dr Garyfallia Gouna, Dorian Gouzou, Dr Angela Jochems Image Dr Ian Maccormick, Dr John McFadden, Dr Susana Muñoz Maniega, Dr Axel Montagne Dr Ylenia Giarratano: Research Fellow Dr Garyfallia Gouna: Research Fellow Dorian Gouzou: Research Fellow Dr Angela Jochems: Research Fellow Dr Ian Maccormick: Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Ophthalmology Dr John McFadden: Data Analyst and Manger Dr Susana Muñoz Maniega: Research Fellow Dr Axel Montagne: Chancellor's Fellow & UK DRI Group Leader Dr Stewart Wiseman: Stroke Association Post-Doctoral Fellow, Neuroimaging Research Radiographer Dr Simon Cox: Director of the Lothian Birth Cohort Studies Technical Staff Image Dr Dominic Job, Ms Charlene Hamid, Ms Charlotte Jardine, Ms Iona Hamilton Image Dr Eleni Sakka, 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 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 PhD Students (alphabetical) Image Daniela Jaime Garcia, Sam Gibbon, Benjamin Jin, Angelina Kancheva, Ronja Kremer Image Miracle Ozzoude, Ben Philps, Jesse Phitidis, Dr Bastien Rioux, 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 Carmen Arteaga-Reyes: PhD student in Clinical Brain Sciences 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 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 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 Ronja Kremer: Clinical Training Research Fellow & PhD student in Regenerative Medicine Krystal Laing: PhD student in Translational Neuroscience Michael Langsen: PhD student in Clinical Brain Sciences Miracle Ozzoude: PhD student Precision Medicine DTP; Thesis title: Endotyping neurodegeneration through the eye using multimodal retinal imaging 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 Keelin Ridge: PhD student in Precision Medicine DTP; Thesis title: Determining cerebral small vessel function and flow in small vessel disease Dr Bastien Rioux: PhD student in Clinical Brain Sciences; Thesis title: The role of interferons in the risk of stroke and dementia 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 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. 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? This article was published on 2024-06-04
