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MyAV范 has more new AMS Fellows this year than any other university and four of our Insitute staff are among the 12 academics from MyAV范听to be elected:

Professors Dame Lyn Chitty DBE, Mehul Dattani, and Ruth Gilbert (all MyAV范 GOS Institute of Child Health), Professor Jugnoo Rahi (MyAV范 GOS Institute of Child Health and Institute of Ophthalmology) Professors Olga Ciccarelli, Henry Houlden, and Ley Sander (all MyAV范 Queen Square Institute of Neurology), Professor Aroon Hingorani (MyAV范 Institute of Cardiovascular Science), Professors Helen Lachmann and Stuart Taylor (both MyAV范 Medicine), Professor Troy Margrie (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at MyAV范) and Professor Claudia Mauri (MyAV范 Infection & Immunity) are among 59 influential biomedical and health scientists elected to the Fellowship this year.

Fellows are drawn from institutions across the UK and their breadth of expertise ranges from molecular imaging to biostatistics to public health policy. This year鈥檚 elected scientists join a prestigious Fellowship of 1,400 esteemed researchers who are central to the Academy鈥檚 work.听

The academics from our Institute are:

Professor Dame Lyn Chitty DBE听

Professor Chitty has been based at MyAV范鈥檚 GOS Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) since the 1980s and is the UK鈥檚 only Professor of Genetics and Fetal Medicine. She has pioneered research into rapid and non-invasive prenatal diagnosis, offering families lower risk options to find out about the health of their unborn child.听

Professor Mehul Dattani听

Mehul Dattani is Professor of paediatric endocrinology based at the MyAV范鈥橲 GOS Institute of Child Health and has, until recently, been the specialty lead in endocrinology at GOSH. As a consultant in paediatric endocrinology at GOSH, University College London Hospital and at several national and international outreach clinics, he has established a large clinical practice of children with various endocrine disorders. His research has made significant inroads into the understanding and management of rare paediatric endocrine disorders. 听

Professor Ruth Gilbert听

Professor Ruth Gilbert is a clinical epidemiologist, who trained in paediatrics. Currently, she is the Co-Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research鈥檚 (NIHR) Children and Families Policy Research Unit. Much of her research uses de-identified, administrative data to address clinical and policy questions related to the health of children and families.听

Professor Jugnoo Rahi

Professor Jugnoo Rahi is a paediatric ophthalmologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital and an epidemiologist. She is a Professor of Ophthalmic Epidemiology at MyAV范鈥檚 GOS Institute of Child Health and Institute of Ophthalmology, leading the Vision and Eyes Group. Professor Rahi鈥檚 group focuses on improving visual health and addressing eye disease and visual impairment in childhood alongside the early life origins of and life course influences on chronic complex eye conditions and visual health in adult life.

Professor David Lomas, MyAV范 Vice Provost (Health), said: 鈥淚 am delighted that the latest cohort of MyAV范 Fellows demonstrates the quality and breadth of expertise within MyAV范 Health with fabulous work being done in genetics and fetal medicine through to systems neuroscience and autoinflammatory diseases.

鈥淓ach of the twelve new fellows from MyAV范 has made an outstanding contribution to biomedical science. Congratulations to each of them on this well-deserved accolade.鈥�

Professor Dame Anne Johnson PMedSci, President of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Co-Director of MyAV范 Health of the Public, congratulated the new Fellows, saying: 鈥淭hese new Fellows are pioneering biomedical research and driving life-saving improvements in healthcare, from understanding the spread of infectious diseases to developing mental health interventions. It鈥檚 a pleasure to recognise and celebrate their exceptional talent by welcoming them to the Fellowship.

鈥淭his year, we are celebrating our 25th anniversary. The Fellowship is our greatest asset, and their broad expertise and dynamic ability has shaped the Academy to become the influential, expert voice of health. As we look to the future, the collective wisdom our new Fellows bring will be pivotal in achieving our mission to create an open and progressive research sector to improve the health of people everywhere.鈥�
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Links:

• MyAV范 Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
• MyAV范 Population Health Sciences

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