Research

Three programmes built around patients, their needs and the future.

Work that bridges deep tissue biology, modern clinical-trial methodology, and pragmatic clinical AI — anchored in IgA nephropathy, extending across glomerular disease, and oriented towards kinder, more precise care for the patients who come next.

Programme 01

Precision medicine in IgA nephropathy

Phenotyping glomerular disease by defining omics-based signatures predictive of disease trajectory and therapeutic response. The programme is designed to feed into companion-diagnostic and patient-stratification strategies for IgAN therapies and trials.

DSP · Bioinformatics · Stratification · Companion diagnostics
Programme 02

Clinical trial design & delivery

ERA Clinical Trials Fellow involved with the delivery of several clinical trials related to glomerular diseases.

Clinical trials · IgAN · Glomerular disease · Protocol design
Programme 03

Clinical AI & patient-facing technology

NHS Digital-funded ML models for AKI prognosis; KRUK-funded LLM-powered patient assistant for IgAN. The work bridges clinical pragmatism with modern machine-learning practice and rigorous evaluation in real-world patient cohorts.

ML · LLMs · AKI · Patient engagement
Areas of Interest

Clinical, methodological, and translational.

The clinical anchor is glomerular disease — and especially IgA nephropathy — but the methods reach across nephrology and beyond.

IgA nephropathy Glomerular endothelial cells Complement biology Mucosa–kidney axis Spatial transcriptomics Bioinformatics Imaging mass spectrometry Biomarkers Patient-driven research Acute kidney injury Machine learning Large language models

The IgAN programme moves between bench and bedside: characterising disease at sub-cellular resolution with DSP, identifying druggable pathways (including endothelial and complement targets), and translating findings into stratified trial designs and pragmatic patient-facing tools.

A second methodological thread is clinical AI — most prominently the NHS Digital-funded recurrent neural network model that predicts the need for renal-replacement therapy in inpatients with AKI in real time, and a KRUK-funded LLM assistant designed to canvas concerns from IgAN patients.

Together these strands form a portfolio that is unusually well-suited to industry partnership: a clinically deep view of a single disease, a methodological toolkit fit for modern trial design, and an AI-aware approach to digital health.

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Looking to partner on IgAN or glomerular-disease programmes?

Particularly interested in stratified-trial design, biomarker strategy, spatial-omics integration, and clinically deployed ML.