Sara is a clinical academic dermatologist; she also loves baking cakes, gardening, or walking with a crazy Gordon setter

Martina is a postdoctoral research fellow and whiz in the lab; she is also a wild water swimmer and mum to the fun-filled Luca and Felix

Luke is a postdoctoral research fellow with expertise in organoid models; outside work he enjoys the mountain bike trails around Scotland with his latest full suspension MTB

Ellie is a PhD student on the prestigious ECAT scheme, hosted jointly in the Brown and Lowell labs; she's working with stem cells to learn about 'community effects' in skin

Emily joined our lab as a paid intern, to gain new skills researching gene-environment interactions in skin. From September 2024 Emily will begin a PhD joint-funded by Medical Research Scotland and Unilever

Silvia is a statistical genetics PhD student focusing on post-GWAS analysis of eczema. Apart from maths, she likes to travel and visit her family in China and Austria

HK is a bioinformatician and visiting researcher from the NTU LKC School of Medicine, Singapore. Outside the lab he seeks adventure, from diving into the deep blue sea to snowboarding and cycling down slopes at top speed

Nicola is our research technician, supporting all our lab work. Outside the lab she 'relaxes' with ultra-marathons!

Lauren is the Brown Lab Dermatology Research Coordinator, supporting skin research within the Brown Lab and NHS Lothian. She has expertise in immunology and has worked in the academic, industry and charity sectors. Outside of the lab, Lauren enjoys reading, pilates & cat cuddles!

William was a bioinformatician in the Brown Lab (2018-2020) contributing to a long-running analysis of deep sequencing data to make sense of the repetitive genes controlling epidermal differentiation

Kim obtained her Masters in the Brown Lab (2018-2020), working on the eczema candidate gene LRRC32 aka GARP

Sheila was our lab technician and queen of the organoid skin model (2014-2020). Best wishes in your retirement Sheila - we miss you!

Nina was our lab technician from August to December 2020; sadly the commute to Edinburgh was going to be just too far, so Nina now has a job as a school laboratory technican

Michael is a medical student at the University of Edinburgh and possible future dermatologist! He joined our lab for a research project as part of his BMedSci in Health Sciences and we are proud to say he finished the year with a first

Mona was our research technician in the Brown Lab 2021-2024; she moved on to a position in industry and we wish you all the best Mona!