We enjoy working together to tackle big questions in the field of eczema genetics
Prof Sara Brown
Sara is a clinical academic dermatologist; she also loves baking cakes, gardening or walking with a crazy Gordon setter
Dr Martina Elias
Martina is a whiz in the lab; she is also a wild water swimmer and mum to the very gorgeous Luca
Ms Mona Etorban
Mona is our research technician; when not in the lab she loves walking and chatting with her friends, or playing classical guitar
Alumni
Dr William Nicholson
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
Ms Kim Morrison
Kim obtained her Masters in the Brown Lab (2018-2020), working on the eczema candidate gene LRRC32 aka GARP
Mrs Sheila Wright
Sheila was our lab technician and queen of the organoid skin model (2014-2020). Best wishes in your retirement Sheila - we miss you!
Ms Nina Dawe
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