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Our people

NIHR GOSH BRC leadership team

Professor Thomas Voit stands in front of the GOSH entrance in a blue suit and spotty tie

Director: Professor Thomas Voit

Lyn Chitty

Deputy Director: Professor Dame Lyn Chitty

Laura Turner

Deputy Director of Operations: Dr Laura Turner

Gene, stem and cellular therapies

Prof Paul Gissen

Theme lead: Professor Paul Gissen

Professor Claire Booth, Clinical Academic Lead for the Cell and Gene Therapy Service at GOSH, stood in ZCR wearing a black top and smiling

Deputy leads: Professor Claire Booth

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Professor David Long

Junior Faculty reps: Dr Alice Giustacchini and Mr Nandaki Keshavan

Theme manager: Azeezat Aminu

Genomic medicine

Lyn Chitty

Theme Lead: Professor Dame Lyn Chitty

Sergi Castellano

Non-Clinical Deputy lead: Professor Sergi Castellano

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Clinical Deputy Lead: Dr Amy McTague

Junior Faculty reps: Dr Reddy Sreekanth Vootukuri

Theme manager: Mr Dauda Bappa

Accelerating novel therapies

Theme leads: Professor Manju Kurian

Professor Darren Hargrave

Professor Darren Hargrave

Haiyan Zhou

Deputy lead: Dr Haiyan Zhou

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Deputy lead: Dr Harry Leitch

Junior Faculty reps: Dr Wendy Heywood and Dr Karin Tuschl

Theme manager: Azeezat Aminu

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Jane Sowden

Theme leads: Professor Jane Sowden

Paolo de Coppi

Professor Paolo De Coppi

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Deputy Lead: Dr Conor McCann

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Deputy Lead: Stavros Loukogeorgakis

Junior Faculty reps: Dr Jennie Chandler and Dr Gabriel Galea

Theme manager: Dr Valerie Karaluka

Applied child health informatics

Neil Sebire (test)

Theme lead: Professor Neil Sebire

Professor Pia Hardelid

Non-clinical Deputy lead: Professor Pia Hardelid

Dr Lola Solebo

Clinical Deputy lead: Dr Lola Solebo

Junior Faculty reps: Dr Philippa Sinanoun, Dr Ania Zylbersztejn and Dr Joachim Tan

Theme manager: Mr Dauda Bappa

NIHR GOSH BRC Central development hub

Dr Philippa Mills

Leads: Professor Philippa Mills (non-clinical)

Terence Stephenson

Professor Sir Terence Stephenson (clinical)

Research Hospital Clinical Academic Careers Lead for Wider Health Care Professionals: Dr Graeme O'Connor

Chris O'Callaghan

Business development lead: Professor Chris O’Callaghan

David Chapman-Jones

Business development Deputy lead: Dr David Chapman Jones

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Patient and Public Involvement, Engagement and Participation Co-lead: Professor Monica Lakhanpaul

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Patient and Public Involvement, Engagement and Participation Co-lead Dr Polly Livermore

Junior Faculty Co-leads: Dr Alexandra Kreins , Elizabeth Scotchman Julian Baruteau Karin Tuschl

NIHR GOSH BRC core team

The work of the NIHR GOSH BRC is supported by a core team including Management, Communications, Data, Finance, Governance and Equality Diversity and Inclusion teams.

Paediatric excellence initiative

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital

Lead: Professor Tim Barrett

Junior Faculty rep: Dr John Apps

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

Leads: Professor John Chester and Professor Christian Hedrich

Junior Faculty rep: Dr Rachel Harwood and Dr William Dawes

Sheffield Children’s Hospital

Lead: Professor Paul Dimitri

Junior Faculty reps: Dr Nicki Barker

Our infrastructure

NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre structure