Brown Lab
September 2025 ECAT PhD student Dr Eleanor Earp gave an oral presentation at the 2025 Organoids Are Us conference, at the CRUK Scotland Institute, Glasgow. Ellie is a clinical dermatologist and her PhD work, co-supervised by Profs Sally Lowell and Sara Brown has focussed on developing a novel skin organoid using embryonic stem cells to […]
September 2025 The Brown Lab was delighted to join colleagues in the Ed-SKIN network in participating in the upcoming collaborative meeting with the Zurich-based research initiative, SKINTEGRITY.CH. Following on from Professor Brown’s invitation to speak at SKINTEGRITY.CH’s mini-symposium on Inflammatory Skin Disease discussions with one of the SKINTEGRITY.CH directors Professor Sabine Werner, led to plans […]
June 2025 Atopic eczema occurs because of complex interactions of genetic variation with environmental factors. The rapid rise in atopic disease in recent years shows the importance of environmental effects, but defining exactly which aspects of our environment are harmful or beneficial is a big challenge. Prof Brown co-led an international consortium in research […]
April 2025 Surface Echoes encompassed three years of collaboration and learning from creative professionals, arts and health researchers and those affected by eczema, to bring the written and spoken quotes of people living with eczema to new and wider audiences. In April 2025, those that worked on the Surface Echoes project gathered at the […]
March 2025 The Brown lab was delighted to find out that Prof. Sara Brown was elected as one of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s (RSE) newest fellows. The RSE Fellowship ‘comprises around 1,800 leading experts in the sciences, arts, business, professions and the third and public sectors, with links to Scotland’ (RSE website, 2025). Elected […]
February 2025 We are pleased to announce that Prof Brown has been awarded the John W. Ballantyne Prize for ‘outstanding work on the pedigree or inheritance of disease’. This prestigious prize is awarded by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh once every 3 years. “I am honoured and delighted to have received this award. […]
December 2024 We are pleased to welcome Lauren Kelly to the group as our Dermatology Research Coordinator. Lauren has a background in immunology & has a range of experience in academia, industry & the charity sector. She did her undergraduate degree in Belfast, before moving to Glasgow to complete her PhD and then venturing […]
October 2024 We are pleased to welcome Emily back to the Brown lab as a PhD student. Emily joined our lab as a paid intern, to gain new skills researching gene-environment interactions in skin. Her PhD aims to characterise the skin’s physical and molecular response to cleansing with soap and alcohol using an organoid […]
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 […]
June 2024 We are pleased to welcome Nicola Lyttle to the group as our Research Technician. Nicola brings a breadth of experience to the lab having spent several years working in both research and clinical trials. She provides technical support across the whole of the Brown Lab group, including the preparation of our skin organoid […]