Accepting PhD Students

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Timothy Barrett is Professor of Paediatrics, Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, and Program Director for the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. He has published over 100 research papers in scientific journals as well as reviews and book chapters in the fields of paediatrics, diabetes and genetics of childhood diabetes syndromes. He has received major grants from The Medical Research Council, The Wellcome Trust, European Union Directorate General for Health and Consumer Affairs, Diabetes UK and Wellchild. He leads NHS national specialist commissioned services in rare diabetes syndromes, and a busy clinical practice of general diabetes, type 2 diabetes in children, and tertiary endocrinology. He is an enthusiastic teacher and communicator on the theme of childhood diabetes, and lectures widely at national and international level. Timothy contributes to the local and national media and advises the BBC on stories relating to childhood obesity and metabolism.

Professor Barrett is currently supervising two students for PhD on genetics and functional studies in rare diabetes disorders.

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Peymane Adab

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KK Cheng

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Jon Deeks

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Amanda Daley

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Emma Lancashire

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Karla Hemming

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Jan Idkowiak

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Carole Cummins

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Kiya Hurley

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Suzanne Higgs

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Janine Dretzke

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Ian Litchfield

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James Martin

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Sheila Greenfield

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Eva Frickel

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Suma Uday

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Neil Morgan

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Louise Tee

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Animesh Acharjee

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Vivek Dhir

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Duncan Shepherd

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Janesh Gupta

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Kun Hu

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Martin Wilson

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Fang Gao Smith

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Andrew T Hattersley

  • University of Exeter

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Ulf Ekelund

  • University of Cambridge

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Eleanor Mcgee

  • St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Janet E Cade

  • University of Leeds

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Tarekegn Geberhiwot

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
  • University of Birmingham

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Sandra Passmore

  • Birmingham Services for Education
  • Health Education Service, Birmingham

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Raj Bhopal

  • University of Edinburgh

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P Davies

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Yosef Buganim

  • Hebrew University
  • The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School

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Viktor I Korolchuk

  • Northern Institute for Cancer Research

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Tetsushi Kataura

  • Northern Institute for Cancer Research

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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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Denise K Williams

  • Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
  • Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Newcastle University
  • University of Cambridge

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Zainab Mohamed

  • University of Manchester
  • Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Patrick Yu-Wai-Man

  • University College London
  • Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
  • University of Cambridge

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Georgina W. Hughes

  • University of Birmingham

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Malkiel A Cohen

  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

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Carol Hardy

  • Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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M Walker

  • Louisiana State University

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V Krishna K Chatterjee

  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Lucia Sedlackova

  • Northern Institute for Cancer Research

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Luiz F.S.E. Silva

  • University of Birmingham

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Sabi Redwood

  • University of Bristol

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David D Martin

  • Witten/Herdecke University

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Jorge Torresi

  • University of Birmingham

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Gaurav Sahay

  • Oregon State University

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Margot Jarrige

  • I Stem
  • Université Paris-Saclay

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Jon Clayden

  • Imperial College London

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Nick J Shaw

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Eamonn R Maher

  • University of Cambridge

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Nicola Crabtree

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital

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Thiago Varga

  • University of Birmingham

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Sergey Trushin

  • Mayo Clinic

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M Smith

  • Imperial College London
  • University of Manchester

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ME McEntagart

  • Genomics England Limited

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Julie Reed

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Daniel G Anderson

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Vrinda Saraff

  • Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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Joerg Gsponer

  • Michael Smith Laboratories

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John Ainsworth

  • University of Manchester

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Rudolf Jaenisch

  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Paramjit Gill

  • University of Warwick

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Anneke Seller

  • University of Oxford
  • Churchill Hospital

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Anna Majander

  • University College London
  • Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
  • University of Helsinki

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V Rao

  • SRM Institute of Science and Technology

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Haoyi Wang

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Lucy Elliott

  • University of Birmingham

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Axel Sciauvaud

  • I Stem
  • Université Paris-Saclay

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Malgorzata Rak

  • Université Paris Descartes

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Shupei Zhang

  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

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Katherine Winter

  • University of Birmingham

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Wolfgang Hogler

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Timothy W. Jones

  • University of Western Australia

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Erich R. Kuechler

  • Michael Smith Laboratories

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Alejandro Huerta-Uribe

  • University of Glasgow

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Kevin J. Kauffman

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Jessica R Wheeler

  • University of Bristol

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David A Collier

  • King’s College London

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Elsje G. Otten

  • Northern Institute for Cancer Research

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AN Williams

  • University of Nottingham

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Oliver D K Maddocks

  • Cancer Research UK
  • University of Glasgow

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Gamze Kocak

  • University of Birmingham

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Joanna Poulton

  • John Radcliffe Hospital

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Nicolas Shaw

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Laetitia Aubry

  • I Stem
  • Université Paris-Saclay

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Rosarelis Torres

  • Novartis
  • George Washington University

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Esther M Meyer

  • Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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M Scott-Brown

  • Australian National University

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Martin Scott-Brown

  • John Radcliffe Hospital

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