Chapter 4 The Team

The CAMARADES Edinburgh team is co-led by Malcolm and Emily. We pride ourselves on being a diverse team, bringing together expertise that spans across various disciplines including clinical medicine, basic science, data science, and software engineering. This diverse blend of backgrounds and skills enables us to approach our research from multiple perspectives.

4.1 Professor Malcolm Macleod

4.2 Professor Emily Sena

  • Role: Principal Investigator
  • Email: emily.sena@ed.ac.uk
  • Key projects: Project management - In Vitro, iRISE

4.3 Dr Gillian Currie

4.4 Chris Sena

  • Role: Research Software Engineer
  • Email: chris.sena@ed.ac.uk
  • Key projects: Lead developer - SyRF

4.5 Dr Charis Wong

  • Role: Clinical Fellow (Postdoctoral)
  • Email: charis.wong@ed.ac.uk
  • Key projects: ReLiSyR-MND, MS-SOLES, Drug selection
  • Ask me about: Evidence synthesis using different types of data, drug prioritisation.

4.6 Dr Kaitlyn Hair

  • Role: Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Email: kaitlyn.hair@ed.ac.uk
  • Key projects: Lead - SOLES development, iRISE, Alzheimer's reviews
  • Ask me about:

4.7 Dr Fiona Ramage

  • Role: Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Email: framage@ed.ac.uk
  • Key projects: GALENOS, ARRIVE automation project
  • Ask me about: Preclinical research/animal models (especially behaviour), systematic review and meta-analysis methods, reproducibility

4.8 Emma Wilson

  • Role: PhD Student
  • Email: emma.wilson@ed.ac.uk
  • Key projects: Neurodevelopmental condition SOLES (NDC-SOLES), Neurodevelopmental condition reviews, SOLES development Open research (UoE library team)
  • Ask me about: Systematic searching, machine learning, text mining and regex, open research practices

4.9 Sean Smith

  • Role: Data Analyst
  • Email: ssmith49@ed.ac.uk
  • Key projects: SOLES development, iRISE
  • Ask me about: SOLES, RStudio, GitHub, Shiny apps, machine learning, regex building

4.10 Francesca Tinsdeall

4.11 Daria Gramenitskaya

4.12 Clara Sanchez-Izquierdo Lozano

  • Role: Research Assistant
  • Email: csanche4@ed.ac.uk
  • Key projects: In Vitro Credibility, SyRF

4.13 Alumni

CAMARADES Edinburgh has been fortunate to have had some fantastic alumni who have contributed significantly to the team and our research. To facilitate ongoing connections, we try to maintain a comprehensive list of our alumni along with their contact details. This ensures that we can remain in touch even after they have transitioned from our team.

Maintaining this alumni network allows us to reach out when necessary, particularly to share manuscripts, abstracts, or other relevant updates in which they have contributed. Our alumni remain integral members of our extended network.

  • Dr Olena Maksym ()
  • Asit Mohanty ()
  • Can Ayder
  • Dr Ezgi Tanriver Ayder
  • Dr Zsanett Bahor
  • Dr Alexandra Bannach-Brown
  • Dr Sarah McCann
  • Dr Jing Liao
  • Rob Stewart
  • Dr Hanna Vesterinen
  • Dr Kieren Egan
  • Cadi Irvine
  • Monica Dingwall