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 the hills
Dr Martina Elias
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
Dr Luke Johnston
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
Dr Eleanor Earp
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. Outside the lab, Ellie is a busy mum of two
Emily Mortimer
Emily joined our lab as a paid intern, to gain new skills researching gene-environment interactions in skin. From September 2024 Emily has been working on her PhD joint-funded by Medical Research Scotland and Eczema Outreach Support
Silvia Shen
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
Nicola Lyttle
Nicola is a senior research technician with a wealth of experience in clinical trials as well as lab work - she supports all of our research activities. Outside the lab Nicola 'relaxes' with ultra-marathons
Dr Andrii Iakovliev
Andrii is a Cross-Disciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellow (XDF) with expertise in computer science, statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology. Outside of work, Andrii enjoys reading and hiking
Mash Bandouil
Mash is a PhD student in the EastBio program hosted jointly by the Malaguti and Brown labs. They will be using synthetic biology tools to characterize cell-cell communication in skin organoids. Outside of lab, Mash is a professional dancer and novice aerialist
Dr Alice Burleigh
Alice is a postdoctoral research fellow with an interest in topical steroid withdrawal (TSW). Outside of work, she loves running marathons, playing tag rugby, and crocheting
Octavie Vargas
Octavie is a Pharmacology student carrying out her Honours project in our lab. In 12 weeks she's learnt a lot about our favourie cell, the keratinocyte, and helped to optimise 'cut & run' so we can learn more about the transcriptional regulating protein EMSY.
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
Kim Morrison
Kim obtained her Masters in the Brown Lab (2018-2020), working on the eczema candidate gene LRRC32 aka GARP
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!
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
Michael Song
Michael is a medical student at the University of Edinburgh and possible future dermatologist! He joined our lab in 2022-23 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 Etorban
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
Dr Carla Roca Bayerri
Carla was a postdoc in the Brown Lab 2021-2024; she moved to work in an NHS laboratory and we wish you all the best Carla
Dr Hong Kiat Ng
HK was a bioinformatician and visiting researcher from the NTU LKC School of Medicine, Singapore, in Edinburgh for part of 2024. HK has now returned to NTU where he is a Research Fellow and we have continued our collaborative work on skin genetics