Featured academics
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Hayley Fowler
Fowler, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, transformed understanding of how warming intensifies short-duration rainfall extremes and flash flood risk. Leading international collaborations on convection-permitting climate models and the first global dataset of hourly rainfall extremes, her work informs drainage design standards and flood adaptation planning worldwide.
John Isaacs
Isaacs is a clinician scientist pioneering immunotherapies for rheumatoid arthritis, including first-in-human trials of tolerogenic cell therapies aiming to switch off autoimmunity rather than suppress it. He directs Therapeutics North East and leads national translational collaborations linking Newcastle laboratories, the NHS and industry to bring novel treatments to patients.
Avan Sayer
Sayer is one of the world's leading researchers on sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle strength, and directs the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre. Her ADMISSION research collaborative unites universities and NHS partners across the UK to transform understanding and care of people living with multiple long-term conditions.