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