Our Team

Management team

Professor Gordon Cook

Clinical Director


Dr Christopher McKee

NIHR Industry Partnerships Manager

Dr Andrew Lewington

Associate Clinical Director Renal Theme Lead

Joshua Gardner

Marketing and Communications Lead

Dr Michael Messenger

Deputy Director



Beverley Riley, PhD

Programme Manager

Dr Helen Radford

Operational Director

Theme Leads

Professor Paul Emery

Musculoskeletal Disease Theme Lead

Professor Mark Wilcox

Infection Diagnostics Theme Lead

Dr Andrew Lewington

Renal Medicine Theme Lead

Professor Jane Nixon

Clinical Trials Theme Lead

Professor Phil Quirke

Multidisciplinary Pathology Theme Lead

Professor Matthew Seymour

Oncology Theme Lead

Dr Bethany Shinkins

Health Economics Theme Lead