The Row Fogo Centre for Research into Ageing and the Brain is guided by a distinguished advisory board: Image Image 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 Image Image 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 Image 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 Image Image Image 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 Image Image 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 Image 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 Image Image 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 Image Image 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 Image Image 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 Image Image 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 Image Image 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 Image Image 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 This article was published on 2024-08-27
