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School of Medical Sciences

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RAE Submitted Research Staff

Bangor University has a long history of excellence in health research. The School of Medical Sciences is building on these strengths and is rapidly expanding the number and scope of its research active staff. The aim of the School of Medical Sciences is to:

  • Build on the biomedical research strengths of the university and, in collaboration with other academic departments, develop complementary programmes of translational and clinical research in line with national and local healthcare priorities, particularly in the areas of ageing, chronic disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer and mental health.
  • Continue the emphasis on multidisciplinary research, which characterises biomedical research in Bangor, and to further develop the partnership with the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
  • Maximise research income from research councils, UK government, charities and industry.
  • Attract high quality academic clinical scientists to North Wales.
  • Develop new areas and themes of health and health professional related research in North Wales.

Selected School of Medical Sciences research news items can be found here.

Five members of the current staff were included in the RAE 2008 and links to their RAE publications are above. The current research interests of these and other research active school staff are below.


Dr Yasmeen Ahmad

  • Rheumatic diseases
  • Inflammatory arthritis
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus

Dr Martyn Bracewell

  • Behavioural (cognitive) neurology
  • Sensorimotor integration (on eye and limb movements)
  • Higher order sensory processing
  • Neuro-ophthalmology
  • Neuro-rehabilitation

Dr Julian Breeze

  • Cardiac imaging using fMRI

Dr John Delieu

  • Developing the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Rendering
  • Effects of antipsychotic medication on neutrophil morphology and oxidative stress
  • Use of Quantitive Structural Activity Relations in cellular responses to antipsychotics
  • History of Medicine

Dr John Hindle

  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Dementia and neurodegenerative diseases

Mr Munier Hossain

  • Evidence based healthcare
  • Translation of research evidence to practice
  • Patient reported outcome following hip replacement surgery

Mr Usama F. Kamel

  • Smell and taste pathophysiology, assessment and management
  • Assessment of Endoscopic Sinus Surgery
  • Transnasal fibreoptic flexible laryngo oesophagoscopy
  • Dizziness assessment and treatment

Prof. Peter Maddison

  • Catabolic effects of rheumatic diseases and effect on muscle mass and function
  • Autoimmune rheumatic diseases - prognosis, and assessment of treatment
  • Assessment of novel anti rheumatic treatment

Dr Damian McKeon

  • Respiratory medicine

Mr Tosan Okoro

  • Orthopaedic surgery
  • Sports and exercise medicine

Prof. Michael Rees

  • Cardiac imaging and intervention
  • Cortical processes and cardiovascular output
  • Cardiology and nuclear medicine

Prof. Nick Stuart

  • Clinical research into the assessment and development of new anti-cancer drugs
  • Assessment of the effects of chemotherapy

Mr Chris Subbe

  • Intensive care medicine
  • Chronic disease patient care

Dr Richard Tranter

  • Cardio-vascular risk factors in the severely mentally ill
  • Genetic predictors of antidepressant response
  • Mental illness in primary care patients

Mr Dean Williams

  • Diabetes and vascular disease