Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Dr Boelaert heads her own research group and is a strong advocate of translational research and aims to build an effective bridge that enables scientific knowledge to be incorportaed into the care of patients with thyroid disease. Research themes currently explored in her lab include:

Molecular pathogenesis of endocrine cancers
Diagnosis, management and long-term consequences of thyroid dysfunction
Investigation of novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in thyroid nodules and cancer

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Research activity per year

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Neil Sharma

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Hisham Mehanna

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Luke Alderwick

Person: Honorary

Rima Smith

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Arri Coomarasamy

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Punith Kempegowda

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Martin Hewison

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Liam Cox

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Shakila Thangaratinam

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Versha Cheed

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David Hodson, MRCVS

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Alex Tan

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Neil Thomas

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Nikos Batis

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John Reynolds

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Grant Stewart

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Thaya Thayakaran

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Gary Reynolds

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Lorraine Harper

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Dana Sumilo

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Kate Jolly

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Jon Deeks

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Tracy Roberts

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John C. Watkinson

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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Adrian Warfield

  • University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

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Kavitha Sunassee

  • King’s College London

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Colin Dayan

  • Cardiff University

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Bijay Vaidya

  • Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital

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Emy Bosseboeuf

  • STIM Laboratory, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

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Jana Kim

  • King’s College London
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Philip Blower

  • King’s College London
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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V Krishna K Chatterjee

  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Ruth Bender Atik

  • Miscarriage Association

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Edmond Edi-Osagie

  • Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Matthew Ringel

  • Ohio State University

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Teresa Gagliano

  • University of Ferrara

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Kalsang Bhatia

  • Burnley General Hospital

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George Firth

  • King’s College London
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Jackie Ross

  • King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Natalie Nunes

  • West Middlesex University Hospital

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Onyebuchi Okosieme

  • Cardiff University

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Rachel Small

  • Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

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Davor Jurkovic

  • Imperial College London
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Salman Razvi

  • Newcastle University
  • Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Sissy Jhiang

  • Ohio State University

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S Hussain

  • City University Ajman
  • The British University in Dubai

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Siobhan Quenby

  • University of Warwick

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Aled Rees

  • Cardiff University

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Simon H S Pearce

  • Newcastle University

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Yakoub Khalaf

  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Patrick C Walz

  • Ohio State University

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Rebecca S Sippel

  • University of Wisconsin

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Sebastiano Filetti

  • University of Rome La Sapienza

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Nicola Zammitt

  • Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

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Lucretia Thomas

  • University of Birmingham

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Anna L. Stratford

  • University of British Columbia

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R Yu

  • Lunds Universitet

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Juan Nicola

  • Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

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Colin M Dayan

  • Cardiff University

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Gilbert Fruhwirth

  • King’s College London

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Johannes Arnoldus Anthonius Meijer

  • Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Dordrecht
  • University of Sheffield

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Duncan J Topliss

  • Monash University

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J Lazarus

  • Cardiff University

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Bernadette Biondi

  • Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

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Richard T Kloos

  • Ohio State University
  • Veracyte Inc

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Rui M B Maciel

  • Departamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas

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Susan C Lindsey

  • Departamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas

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Sukhchain Bansal

  • University of Birmingham

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Barbara Fruci

  • Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro

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Moray Campbell

  • Ohio State University

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Leonidas H Duntas

  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Johannes W Smit

  • Radboud Universiteit

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Giuseppe Costante

  • Institut Jules Bordet

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Giulia Busonero

  • University of Siena

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Ilaria Muller

  • Cardiff University

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Kyle Porter

  • Ohio State University

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Garth F Essig

  • Ohio State University

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Furio Pacini

  • University of Siena

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Allan Hackshaw

  • Imperial College London

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David Schneider

  • University of Wisconsin

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Daniel Fineberg

  • Monash University

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Graham R Williams

  • Imperial College London

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Tim Barrett

  • University of Birmingham
  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Arron Lacey

  • Swansea University

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Mohd Yusof

  • Cardiff University

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Stuart J Bennett

  • Aston University

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Nick J Shaw

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Lesley Hall

  • Newcastle University

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Colin Johnston

  • University of Oxford

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Luke Marsh

  • Cardiff University

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Denise M. Howel

  • University of Newcastle
  • Newcastle University

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James S. Good

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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Benjamin Small

  • University of Wolverhampton

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Arpaia Debora

  • Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

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Akheel A Syed

  • University of Manchester
  • Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

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Amit Allahabadia

  • Royal Hallamshire Hospital

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Simon H Pearce

  • Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary

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John Lazarus

  • Cardiff University

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Mario Abinun

  • Newcastle University

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Jeremy M W Kirk

  • Birmingham Childrens Hospital
  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • National Institute for Health Research

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Daniel J Cuthbertson

  • Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Liverpool

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Katie Baker

  • University of Birmingham

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Stephen L Atkin

  • University of Hull
  • The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

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Tim Cheetham

  • Newcastle University

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Ann Marie Hynes

  • Newcastle University

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Andrew Hartley

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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Martyn Underwood

  • Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

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W Lu

  • University of Notre Dame

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Paul Dimitri

  • St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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John Wass

  • University of Oxford
  • Churchill Hospital

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Thozhukat Sathyapalan

  • University of Hull

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Andy Toogood

  • Birmingham Health Partners

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Amanda J Drake

  • Queen's Medical Research Institute

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Marian Ludgate

  • Cardiff University

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Alex Rees

  • University Hospital of Wales

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Martin Underwood

  • University of Warwick

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Weiguang Wang

  • University of Wolverhampton

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Michael J.o. Wakelam

  • Babraham Institute
  • University of Glasgow

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Scott Nelson

  • University of Glasgow

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Michael Cole

  • Newcastle University

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Illaria Muller

  • Cardiff University

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S Stewart

  • MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit
  • Ghent University

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Daniel Thayer

  • Swansea University

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Christina Daousi

  • University of Liverpool

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Arshiya Tabasum

  • Cardiff University

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Jameel Muzaffar

  • University of Cambridge

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Peter N. Taylor

  • Cardiff University

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David W Ray

  • University of Manchester

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Miles J. Levy

  • University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

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Andrew Johnson

  • North Bristol NHS Trust

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Shlomo Melmed

  • Cedars Sinai Med Ctr

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Ashley Grossman

  • University of Oxford

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