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Principal Investigator 

MBiochem DPhil Sarah Snelling - Associate Professor

Sarah Snelling 

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.

 

Co-Principal Investigators 

Mathew Baldwin - NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer

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.

Christopher Buckley - Kennedy Professor of Translational Rheumatology and Director of Clinical Research

Christopher Buckley

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.

 

Adam Cribbs - ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Adam Cribbs

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.

Celia Gregson

Celia Gregson 

Professor Celia Gregson will coordinate the Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI) within the project, with particular focus on tissue collection in Zimbabwe. She will advise on inclusion of single cell technologies within wider epidemiological and genomic research and infrastructure.

 

Vikas Khanduja

Vikas Khanduja 

Professor Vikas Khanduja will advise and support clinical staff at sites in India, Turkey, Oman and Argentina, and explore clinical barriers to global tissue atlasing projects.

 

Collen Masimirembwa  

Collen Masimirembwa 

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

David Sims

David Sims 

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.

Kate Ward

Kate Ward 

Professor Kate Ward will coordinate research activity at The Gambia site, in particular the ethical application, clinical and laboratory work, and seek to expand the project to other African countries