Centre Investigators
Professor Richard Eastell
Director of the Mellanby Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Professor of Bone Metabolism
‘Causes and treatment of bone diseases’
Professor Janet Brown
Deputy Director of the Mellanby Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Chair in Translational Medical Oncology
‘Understanding the impact of cancer on the skeleton and optimisation of prevention and treatment strategies’
Dr Paul Arundel
Consultant in Paediatric Metabolic Bone Disease
‘Paediatric rare bone diseases – improving care and outcomes for children and families’
Lead Consultant Bone Geneticist
‘Unravelling disease mechanism in genetic bone disorders using zebrafish as an animal model; Understanding genetic aetiology and phenotypic variability in bone fragility and translational biology of bone disease‘
Dr Pinaki Bhattacharya
Lecturer in Solid Biomechanics
‘Understanding mechanisms of bone disease progression across space and time scales’
Professor Philippe Clezardin, Lifelong Mellanby Centre Member
Honorary Professor in Bone Oncology
‘Understanding of molecular
mechanisms that govern breast cancer cell colonization of the bone marrow’
Professor Robert Coleman, Lifelong Mellanby Centre Member
Professor of Medical Oncology
‘Prevention and treatment of bone metastases’
Dr Enrico Dall’Ara
Senior Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Multiscale Imaging
‘Understanding the properties of musculoskeletal tissues across the space and time scales’
Ms Sarah Davis
Health Economics Lead ‘Estimating the cost effectiveness of interventions for the prevention of fractures’
Professor Paul Dimitri
Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Deputy Director for the Medicines for Children Research Network (East)
‘The relationship between fat and bone in
children and novel methods of bone imaging’
Professor Alison Gartland
Professor of Bone and Cancer Biology
‘Mechanisms of musculoskeletal
diseases’
Dr Alanna Green
Principal Investigator
‘New therapeutic approaches to treat incurable cancers in bone’
Professor Paul Hatton
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
‘Medical devices and regenerative therapies’
Dr Aymen Idris
Senior lecturer of musculoskeletal pharmacology
‘Primary interest pharmacology of inflammation’
Professor Amaka Offiah
Chair in Paediatric Musculoskeletal Radiology
‘The optimisation of current techniques and development of novel methods of imaging the paediatric musculoskeletal system’
Professor Penelope Ottewell
Professor of Cancer Biology
‘Molecular mechanisms that drive breast cancer metastasis to bone and identification of therapeutic interventions’
Professor Graham Russell, Lifelong Mellanby Centre Member
Professor of Musculoskeletal Pharmacology
‘Pharmacology of drugs to improve treatment of bone disease’
Dr Syazrah Salam
Consultant and Clinical Research Fellow
‘Chronic kidney disease- mineral bone disorder and bone fragility in renal osteodystrophy‘
Dr Marian Schini
Consultant and Clinical Research Fellow
‘Osteoporosis and calcium metabolism disorders‘
Dr Ning Wang
Principal Investigator
‘Understand the impact of exercise on cancer induced bone diseases’
Dr Caroline Wilson
Medical Oncology Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
‘Breast cancer and bone metastasis’
