Brown Lab
August 2024 The UKRI has announced major funding for four research clusters to focus on technology development and research into genomic variation in a range of disease areas. The ‘Edinburgh Molecular Mechanisms Cluster’ has been awarded more than £5 million to assess the effects of different perturbations on tissues from the human body – including […]
October 2023 Sara Brown has held a personal chair of Dermatology at the University of Edinburgh since December 2020, but she was successful in her application to this prestigious and historic endowed chair, becoming the 5th person and the first female to hold this postion. Read the story here.
September 2023 Professor Sara Brown is co-chair of the E2BRN and we are delighted that Edinburgh was selected to host the annual meeting 28-29 Sept 2023, in the University’s beautiful and historic Playfair Library. Alongside expert keynote speakers from Leiden, Edinburgh and Amsterdam, and we selected a range of invited abstracts for oral and poster […]
November 2022 Sara Brown contributed to the scientific programme committee for this highly successful Genomics for Dermatology course for UK and international skin science researchers, hosted by Wellcome Connecting Science at the Sanger Institute Campus, and supported by the British Association of Dermatologists. Delegates said “This was a very inspiring course which gave me an insight […]
August 2022 As part of the ‘Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas’ Sara was selected and trained to perform two shows in the world-famous Edinburgh Festival Fringe – bringing skin science to a new audience in a new way. Read more about it here. And watch out for Sara’s new show in 2023 😉
July 2022 Over recent months we are very grateful to have been awarded THREE major grants to continue our work to understand eczema from different perspectives: Rosetrees Trust and Stoneygate Trust – Food allergy and atopic eczema, in collaboration with Prof Matt Ridd at the University of Bristol Charles Wolson Charitable Trust – Understanding & […]
March 2022 Carla Roca Bayerri joined our lab in February, bringing her expertise in cell culture, molecular biology and an enthusiasm to learn more about skin genetics. Carla is originally from Barcelona, but she now enjoys (!) the Scottish weather. She has a range of dangerous hobbies, including building human towers – a famous Catalan […]
July 2021 Sara has been working with visual artist Beverley Hood for several years now, bringing fresh and exciting new ways to communicate skin science. This latest exhibition of Bev’s work forms part of a contemporary art exhibition co-curated by Summerhall and ASCUS Art & Science. Inspired by work she observed in the Brown research […]
June 2021 We are delighted to welcome Kim from Franklin Zhong’s group in the Skin Research Institute of Singapore. Kim is a very experienced postdoctoral researcher and she is visiting the Brown Lab for 6 months’ collaborative work looking at the effects of genetic variants on skin response to UV light, and contributing to further […]
June 2021 We are very happy to welcome Luke Johnston who joins the Brown Lab as a postdoctoral research fellow. Luke has trained in Liverpool, Edinburgh and Belfast before returning to Edinburgh 🙂 Skin research is a new field for him, but Luke brings expertise in organoid modelling, cell biology and molecular genetics, so he […]