Academic year 2020 / 2021

Razan Muradi - Bsc(Hons) Neuroscience

Project title: ‘Longitudinal evolution of recent small subcortical infarct’, supervised by Dr Carmen Arteaga and Professor Joanna Wardlaw.

Zuzanna Tobola - BSc(Hons) Infectious Diseases

Project title: "Translational image analysis protocols for studying disease progress in rodent models of small vessel disease", supervised by Dr Michael Stringer, Dr Antoine Vallatos, Professor Anna Wiliams and Professor Joanna Wardlaw.

Publication: Quick et al (2022). "Loss of the heterogeneous expression of flippase ATP11B leads to cerebral small vessel disease in a normotensive rat model". Acta Neuropathol. 2022 May 30. doi: 10.1007/s00401-022-02441-4.

Liza Chong - MBChB, BMedSci (Hons)

Project title: "Retinal vascular changes in relation to brain changes in mild stroke study 3 patients: a one-year follow-up study", supervised by Dr Stewart Wiseman and Professor Joanna Wardlaw.

Gemma Mullan - BSc(Hons) Infectious Diseases

Project title:  "Relationship between baseline creatinine levels and white matter hyperintensities one year post stroke", supervised by Dr Francesca Chappell.

Sophia Wong - MBChB, BMedSci (Hons)

Project title: 'What matters to people (and their families) living with Small Vessel Disease', supervised by Dr Fergus Doubal and Professor Joanna Wardlaw.

William Xu - BMedSci (Hons) Neuroscience

Project title: "Improving segmentation and quantification of perivascular spaces in brain MRI", supervised by Dr Maria Valdes-Hernandez and Mr Jose Bernal Moyano.

Abbie Barnes - BMedSci (Hons) Anatomy and Development

Project title: "Topological relationships between perivascular spaces and white matter hyperintensities", supervised by Dr Lucia Ballerini.

Publication:

Barnes et al (2021). Topological relationships between perivascular spaces and progression of white matter hyperintensities: a pilot study in a sample of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.

Ruairidh Morrison - MBChB Medicine

Project title: "Long-term air pollution exposure and incidence of stroke: a systematic review", supervised by Dr Maria Valdes-Hernandez.

Ernest Chui - BMedSci (Hons) Infectious Disease

Project title: "Measuring localised brain small vessel dysfunctions that lead to white matter damage in cerebral small vessel disease", supervised by Professor Joanna Wardlaw and Dr Salvatore Rudilosso.

Charlotte Rothwell - MBChB with a pharmacology intercalation

Project title: "A classification of polypharmacy in mild stroke patients at baseline and 1 year follow up and the implications of this on functional and cognitive outcomes", supervised by Dr Una Clancy and Professor Joanna Wardlaw.

Karam Sehmi - BSc (Hons) Pharmacology 

Project title:  "Can nitrate drugs be used to prevent cognitive decline?", supervised by Professor Joanna Wardlaw

Victoria Coultas - BSc(Hons) Medical Sciences

Project title: "Improving blood-brain barrier assessment in cerebral small vessel disease", supervised by Cameron Manning and Professor Joanna Wardlaw

Pearlyn Loon - BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences

Project title:  "Inflammation in the Nasal and Paranasal Sinuses Assessed from Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Association with Markers of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Endothelial Dysfunction", supervised by Dr Maria Valdes Hernandez

Angus Lawson - MBChB Intercalating in BMedSci (Hons) Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells

Project title: "Characterising Retinal Vasculature in a Novel Rat Model of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease", supervised by Professor Anna Williams

Publication: Quick et al (2022). "Loss of the heterogeneous expression of flippase ATP11B leads to cerebral small vessel disease in a normotensive rat model". Acta Neuropathol. 2022 May 30. doi: 10.1007/s00401-022-02441-4.