Collaborators based in Clinical Suite

Dr Angus Jones

Clinical Research Fellow

Angus trained in medicine in London before working as a junior doctor in St. George’s (London) and Southampton.  After working as a doctor and lecturer in Malawi, he returned to the UK in 2007 to specialise in Diabetes and Endocrinology.  Since 2008, he has worked in Exeter as an Academic Clinical Fellow, combining clinical training with research in the CRF. His area of interest is assessing insulin secretion using UCPCR and the relationship between insulin secretion and treatment response in type 2 diabetes. He has been awarded NIHR funding for a 3 year fellowship investigating prediction of treatment response to new therapies in type 2 diabetes with Andrew Hattersley for which he has now joined us full time. He is running the PRIBA (Predicting Response to Incretin Based Agents) study which is currently recruiting patients who are due to start new types of treatment for type 2 diabetes called GLP-1 analogues and DPP-IV inhibitors.

Contact:  angus.jones@pms.ac.uk

Dr Sarah Flanagan

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Sarah completed her PhD in 2007 and has since worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Peninsula Medical School. Her current research focuses on the genetics of neonatal diabetes and congenital hyperinsulinism.

Contact:  sarah.flanagan@pms.ac.uk

Dr Katarina Kos, MRCP, MD, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Obesity Research and Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology

Contact:  katarina.kos@pcmd.ac.uk

David Melzer

Contact:  david.melzer@pms.ac.uk

Dr Lorna Harries

Lecturer in Diabetes and Metabolism

Lorna completed her PhD at UCL in 1994 and joined Andrew Hattersley's team as a Postodctoral Fellow in 2001, working on the role of mRNA biology in maturity-onset diabetes of the young.  She gained an RCUK Fellowship in 2006, and set up the RNA-mediated mechanisms of disease group, which researches the effects of alternative mRNA processing and gene regulation in chronic disorders.  Lorna's collaboration with the CRF includes use of the Exeter Tissue Bank, which provides samples for her research.

Contact:  lorna.harries@pms.ac.uk

Dr Jonathan Locke

Associate Research fellow

Jonathan is an Associate Research Fellow working with Dr Lorna Harries and is currently researching how genetic variation in type 2 diabetes susceptibility genes affects RNA processing and gene expression.  He uses the Exeter Tissue Bank to obtain human samples to help with his investigations. 

Contact:  jonathan.locke@pms.ac.uk

Dr David Llewellyn

Research Fellow in Epidemiology

David joined the Peninsula Medical School in 2009 having moved from Cambridge University.  He has a background in neuropsychology and epidemiology.  His research focuses on the identification of potentially modifiable vascular and metabolic risk factors for Alzheimer’s and cognitive decline.

Contact:  david.llewellyn@pms.ac.uk