SITU - Key Persons


Abbie Harker

Job Titles:
  • Apprentice Recruitment Administration Assistant
I joined the Human Resources team an Apprentice Recruitment Administration Assistant in September 2023. My role is focused our recruitment processes and policies. I work closely with line managers throughout the recruitment process, starting from writing the job description all the way organising the interviews. I then support new starters through their induction and onboarding process to make sure they feel welcomed into our team here at NDORMS. I am always happy to help, so if you ever have any questions please feel free to contact me.

Adam Cribbs

Job Titles:
  • ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Associate Professor Adam Cribbs is computational lead for the AIMS Network, and brings expertise in single cell analysis. He is also actively involved in developing computational biology training for single cell analysis in low resourced countries.

Adrien Hallou

Job Titles:
  • GROUP LEADER in TISSUE BIOLOGY ( INNOVATION INVESTIGATOR TRACK )

Akiko Greshon

Job Titles:
  • Data Coordinator

Alex Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellow

Amar Rangan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Andrew Carr

Job Titles:
  • Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedics

Andrew Price

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Orthopaedics Surgery

Anjali Shah

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trials Manager & Epidemiologist

Audrey Gérard

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Benjamin Ollivere

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

Caroline Hing

Job Titles:
  • Consultant Specialising in Trauma Treatment, St George 's University Hospitals

Catherine Barry

Job Titles:
  • Paediatric Research Physiotherapist

Chris Lavy

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Orthopaedic and Tropical Surgery and Consultant Orthopaedic and

Christopher Buckley

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Professor Christopher Buckley will provide mentoring to clinical-scientist staff at international sites and share critical insight into cellular function and annotation within musculoskeletal tissues.

Collen Masimirembwa

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Professor Collen Masimirembwa will coordinate the clinical, laboratory and training activities in Zimbabwe, including the implementation of single-cell genomics training.

Conrad Harrison

Job Titles:
  • NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Cyrus Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Musculoskeletal Science, University of Oxford

Daithi Byrne

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trials Assistant

Daniele Biasci

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader ( Innovation Investigator Track ) in a - TAP Data Science

Daniele Cotton

Job Titles:
  • Chairman / Botnar

Dario Carugo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

David Beard

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Musculoskeletal and Surgical Science
  • Professor of Musculoskeletal and Surgical Science / Rosetrees Royal College

David Sims

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Associate Professor David Sims will lead training in single-cell RNA sequencing data analysis for low-middle income countries, to be piloted in Zimbabwe, using a train-the-trainer approach. He will also supervise data analysis of single-cell RNAseq generated through the project.

Dominic Furniss

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Dominic Power

Job Titles:
  • Consultant Hand and Peripheral Nerve Surgeon at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Dominique Rothenfluh

Job Titles:
  • Consultant Spinal Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Mat Baldwin

Dr Mat Baldwin will liaise with all project sites to develop locally sensitive ethics, and will provide remote training in surgical tissue acquisition. He will also oversee the development of novel single-cell and single-nuclei sequencing technologies for analysis of bone tissue.

Duncan Richards

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Eileen Morrow

Job Titles:
  • NIHR Doctoral Clinical Academic Research Fellow

Emma Blackmore-Bowes

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trial Manager

Gary Collins

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medical Statistics and Director of CSM

Ghada Alsaleh

Job Titles:
  • Versus Arthritis Career Development Fellow

Heidi Fletcher

Job Titles:
  • SENIOR Data Manager

Helen Wood

Job Titles:
  • Physiotherapist ( Research )
I joined SITU in 2023 as a research physiotherapist to work on the SPELL and ROBUST clinical trials. I continue to work clinically alongside this. Prior to taking up this role I worked clinically in variety of sectors, specialising initially in Adult and Paediatric MSK. I completed an MSc in Paediatric Physiotherapy at UCL before moving to Oxford where I spent time working in both the paediatric acute, and MSK/orthopaedic teams. Here, I was fortunate to complete a research internship, funded by the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre.

Hemant Pandit

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Departmental Researcher

James Edwards

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

James Fullerton

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Therapeutics

Jelena Bezbradica Mirkovic

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor in Immunology

Jethro Johnson

Job Titles:
  • OCMS Deputy Director

Joanna O'Mahoney

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trial Manager

John Christianson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Cell Biology and Cancer Research UK Senior Research Fellow

Jonathan Cook

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Clinical Trials & Medical Statistics / OCTRU Deputy Director

Jonathan Rees

Job Titles:
  • Head of Department - NDORMS

Julia Salafranca Gomez

Job Titles:
  • Chairman / Kennedy

Julie Damnjanovic

Job Titles:
  • Personal Assistant to Professor Tim Theologis

Justin Wormald

Job Titles:
  • Specialist Registrar ( ST6 ) in Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery

Kaitlyn Purdie

Job Titles:
  • Chairman / Kennedy

Karen Barker

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Physiotherapy

Katie Chegwin

Job Titles:
  • Personal Assistant to Professor David Beard

Kennedy Trust

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Molecular Immunology

Laura Coates

Job Titles:
  • NIHR Clinician Scientist and Senior Clinical Research Fellow

Lesley Ball

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trials Assistant

Liye Chen

Job Titles:
  • Career Development Fellow - Funded by Versus Arthritis

Loretta Davies

Job Titles:
  • Trials Portfolio Manager ( Operational Lead )

Lynn Dustin

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Immunology and Virology

Marco Fritzsche

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biophysical Immunology ( Innovation Investigator Track )

Marie-Caroline Nogaro

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Fellow in Paediatric Orthopaedics

Marion Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Vice Principal ( Research ) and Professor of Health Services Research

Mark Coles

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Immunology

Matthew Costa

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery

Matthew Gardiner

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Departmental Senior Research Fellow in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Max Stewart

Job Titles:
  • MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow

Megan Stone

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trials Coordinator

Miriam Tillmann-Morris

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trials Assistant

Nicholas Beale

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trial Manager ( ORiF )

Nicholas Magrane

Job Titles:
  • Data Manager

Odette Dawkins

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trial Manager

PASHiOn Trial

Job Titles:
  • Manager

Paul Bowness

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Experimental Rheumatology

Philippa Hulley

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Philippa Nicolson

Job Titles:
  • Versus Arthritis Research Fellow

Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy


Prof Abhilash Jain

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Plastic and Hand Surgery
Prof Abhilash Jain graduated in Medicine in 1995 (London) and undertook surgical training to become a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MRCS, 1998). He then began training in Plastic, Reconstructive, Hand and Aesthetic Surgery in London teaching hospitals. 

He was awarded both an MSc (Distinction) (University College London) and PhD (Imperial College London) for his research looking at the effects of rheumatoid arthritis on the hand. For this work he won many prestigious prizes and published papers in high impact journals, including the Lancet. 

After training in a number of premier plastic surgery units both in London and Sydney, Australia he was awarded the Plastic Surgery Specialist Fellowship [FRCS (Plast)] in 2008, and entered into the GMC Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery in 2009. He has undertaken fellowships in congenital hand surgery, cosmetic surgery and won a place to be the first Plastic Surgeon to undertake a Royal College of Surgeon approved microsurgery fellowship in lower limb reconstruction. He has extensive clinical and academic training in Plastic Surgery and this was recognised when he was the first Plastic Surgeon to win a prestigious HEFCE Clinical Senior Lecturer-NHS award. In 2013 he was appointed as the Surgical Specialty Lead for the UK by the Royal College of Surgeons to lead clinical research for both the British Society of Hand Surgery (BSSH) and the British Association of Plastic Surgeons (BAPRAS). He founded and leads the Reconstructive Surgery Trials Network (RSTN) to deliver collaborative multi-center clinical research on behalf of BAPRAS and BSSH. He is currently an Associate Professor of Plastic and Hand Surgery at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London NHS Trust.

Raashid Luqmani

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Rheumatology

Raman Uberoi

Job Titles:
  • Consultant Interventional Radiologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Richie Gill

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Head of Department, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Rowena Bedford

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trials Assistant

Sally Hopewell

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Clinical Trials and Evidence Synthesis

Sara Khalid

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Health Informatics and Biomedical Data Science

Sarah Snelling

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Principal Investigator
Associate Professor Sarah Snelling directs the AIMS Network, where she heads up coordination of multidisciplinary teams, laboratory workflows and protocols, analysis techniques, ethics applications and community engagement efforts.

Scott Parsons

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trials Manager

Sian Saul

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trial Assistant

Simon Graham

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery

Sinayat Mahzabeen


Sir Henry Dale

Job Titles:
  • Fellow

Siôn Glyn-Jones

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Stephanie Dakin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences

Steve Gwilym

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor & Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Sumedh Bele

Job Titles:
  • Fellow

Tal Arnon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Theana Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Tim Theologis

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Yang Luo

Job Titles:
  • KTRR Senior Research Fellow in Data Science

Yoshi Itoh

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor and Principal Investigator Cell Migration Group