Academic careers

Previous fellowship awards

Academic clinical practice translates scientific discoveries into patient care, but the quality of the science and its translation are only as good as the people involved. Working in collaboration with The Health Foundation and the Primary Immunodeficiency Association, the Academy has developed a portfolio of fellowship awards ranging from research training, through to senior fellowships, supporting academic research in clinical immunology, anaesthesia, radiology and surgery. Highly prestigious fellowships have been awarded to clinical researchers of exceptional ability who have the potential to become leaders in their field.


Fellowships awarded through the Academy of Medical Sciences, in partnership with the Health Foundation

Fellowships in Academic Surgery

Mr Peter Hutchinson
Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon and Senior Surgical Fellow
Host Institution: Academic Neurosurgery Unit, University of Cambridge
Research Project: Neuroprotection after head injury: decompressive  craniectomy and microdialysis

Ms Nicola Ragge
Senior Surgical Scientist
Host Institution: University of Oxford
Research Project: A clinical and molecular genetic study of congenital microphthalmos-anophthalmos

Mr Edwin Jesudason
Clinician Scientist Fellow
Host Institution: Institute of Child Health, University of Liverpool
Research Project: Exploiting mechanical stimuli to increase prenatal growth of the hypoplastic lung.

Ms Lorna Marson
Consultant Transplant Surgeon
Host Institution: Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Research Project: Macrophage-mediated killing of endothelial cells in chronic allograft nephropathy

Mr Gavin Pettigrew
Clinician Scientist Fellow
Host Institution: University of Cambridge
Research Project: T – B cell collaboration in alloimmunity

Dr Michael Douek
Clinician Scientist Fellow
Host Institution: Royal Free and University College London
Research Project: Functional assessment of breast cancer angiogenesis using Doppler ultrasound and breast MRI

Fellowships in Academic Radiology

Professor Mary Ann Rutherford
Professor of Perinatal Imaging
Host Institution: MRC Clinicial Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine
Research Project: An MR imaging programme to study the development of the human cortex


Dr Elspeth Whitby
Senior Lecturer
Host Institution: University of Sheffield
Research Project: 'Magnetic resonance imaging of the developing fetus'

Fellowships in Anaesthesia

Dr Jonathan Coles
Clinician Scientist Fellow
Host Institution: University of Cambridge
Research Project: ‘Temporal pattern and metabolic correlates of neuronal loss after human head injury’

Dr Robert Stephens
Clinical Research Training Fellow
Host Institution: Institute of Child Health, London
Research Project: 'The Predictors of the Human Response to Endotoxin’

Fellowships awarded through the Academy of Medical Sciences, in partnership with the Primary Immunodeficiency Association

Fellowships in Clinical Immunology

Dr Siobhan Burns
Clinician Scientist Fellow
Host Institution: Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, University College London
Research Project: ‘Defects of Dendritic Cell Migration in Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome’