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- Senior Research Fellow
- Inflammation
- Div of Medicine
- Faculty of Medical Sciences
I am an autoimmune connective tissue disease researcher at the UCL Royal Free Hospital Campus with particular interests in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) and experience in skin and lung fibrosis, matrix biology, mechanical stress, and monocyte/macrophage research.
I am a member of the Early Career Research Network Committee in the Division of Medicine.




My research interests centre on understanding the processes related to dysregulated tissue repair and fibrosis. This has included examining the link between fibrosis and various cell types and molecular mechanisms such as macrophages, mechanical stress driven responses, and epithelial to mesenchymal transition.
I have been studying scleroderma pathogenesis since my Arthritis Research UK-funded PhD project on the role of CTGF in the disease, which was conducted at UCL under the guidance of Prof David Abraham and Prof Jill Norman, who are leaders in fibroblast biology and renal fibrosis. After that, I was awarded a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at Keio University, Japan to investigate macrophage polarisation in a model of scleroderma pathogenesis.
- Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate
student projects, 2014 – present
- Practical demonstrator, BSc Applied Medical
Sciences, 2018-20
- Small groups tutor, BSc Applied Medical Sciences,
2019-present
- Co-module lead, Molecular Basis of Disease
MEDC0010, 2019 – present
- Teaching (lectures and tutorials) on the BSc
Applied Medical Sciences, BSc Nutrition and Medical Sciences, MSc Human
Tissue Repair courses, 2019 – present
OCT-2021 | Senior Research Associate | Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Disease | University College London, United Kingdom |
SEP-2014 | Research Associate | Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Disease | University College London, United Kingdom |
MAR-2013 – MAR-2014 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Internal Medicine | Keio University, Japan |
2014 | Doctor of Philosophy | University College London | |
Bachelor of Science | University College London |