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A photo of Professor Alasdair Coles, theme lead for Alasdair Coles

Theme lead: Professor Alasdair Coles

Professor Coles trained in Oxford, Nottingham and London, and has worked in Cambridge since 1994. He became an academic consultant in 2004, and professor of neuroimmunology in 2014.

His primary research interest is in the immunology and treatment of multiple sclerosis, and has a small research team managing clinical trials and doing human immunological laboratory work.

He is a medical adviser to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of the UK, and advises several pharmaceutical companies.

He was ordained priest in the Church of England in 2009 and is now a minister in secular employment at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Contact: dhr25@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Professor Peter Hutchinson FMedSci

TBI Co-lead

Dr Rita Horvath

Rare Disease Co-lead

Mr Adel Helmy

PPIE/EDI Co-lead

Contact: aeh33@cam.ac.uk

Dr Joanne Jones

ECR Co-lead

Other key contributors:

Dr Will Brown

Contact: WB255@cam.ac.uk

Dr Jonathan Coles

Dr Keri Carpenter

Professor David Menon

Contact: dkm13@cam.ac.uk

Dr Edward Needham

Dr Virginia Newcombe

Dr Luca Peruzzoti-Jametti

Contact: lp429@cam.ac.uk

Dr Stefano Pluchino

Contact: spp24@cam.ac.uk

Dr Emmanuel Stamatakis

Contact: eas46@cam.ac.uk

Professor Stephen Sawcer

Dr Jelle van-den-Ameele

Contact: jv361@cam.ac.uk

Professor Patrick Yu-Wai-Man

Contact: py237@cam.ac.uk

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