GROUP LEAD

Lead
​Prof Sarah Coupland
Professor and Honorary Consultant in Pathology

LABORATORY TEAM

Senior Research Fellows
Dr Helen Kalirai
Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Dr Karen Aughton
Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Natalie Kipling 
Healthcare Scientist
​NPIC Digital Pathology (InnovateUK); PhD student.





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Dr Sam Barlow
Post Doc Research Associate 



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Dr Yamini Krishna
​Consultant Ophthalmic Histopathologist and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer





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Associate Members
Prof Judy Coulson
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Dr Joseph Sacco
Consultant in Medical Oncology at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
Dr Carlos De Figuereido
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Andrew Fielding
North West Cancer Research Lecturer at Lancaster University

CLINICAL TEAM

Ocular Oncologists
​Prof Heinrich Heimann
Consultant Ophthalmologist 
Lead of the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Centre

Dr Rumana Hussain
​Consultant Ophthalmologist

Prof Bertil Damato
Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist
Medical Oncologists
Dr Joseph Sacco
Consultant in Medical Oncology at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

Statistician

Prof Azzam Taktak​
Consultant Clinical Scientist, Mathematical and Statistical Modelling
Dr Antonio Eleuteri
​Department of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, Royal Liverpool University Hospital

STUDENTS

Postgraduate Students
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Miss Luisa De Almeida Morais Silva
​PhD Student

Mr. Thiazzi Anakrazia 
​PhD Student

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Mr James Draper
PhD Student

Project
"Revisiting our Understanding of Choroidal Embryology and Biology"
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Mr Josh Hattersley
PhD Student

Project
"Understanding the role of the extracellular matrix in uveal melanoma progression and metastasis - developing 3D in-vitro models to further biological insight and enable drug discovery."

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Mr. Max Jackson
PhD Student

Project
​"Enhancing eye cancer diagnostics and early detection via the application of artificial intelligence to clinical images of primary and metastatic uveal melanoma."


SUPPORT STAFF

Research Support
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Ms Victoria Mcloughlin
LOORG Administrator/PA to Professor Sarah Coupland



Post docs
We are always happy to hear from postdoctoral researchers who would like to begin, or continue, their research career in ocular oncology, please send your CV and a brief description of your area of interest to loorg@liv.ac.uk