Lower GI
Our work is focused on intestinal inflammation caused by interaction of the gut with microbes. This includes both acute gastroenteritis especially Campylobacter jejuni as well as Clostridium difficile whose overgrowth caused by antibiotic use is such an important cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitalised patients. We are also studying diseases characterised by inflammation due to breaches in the gut barrier leading to interaction of gut microbiota and host immune system. These include acute diverticulitis and inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
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Professor Robin Spiller | Professor Spiller is Professor of Gastroenterology in the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Nottingham. Past Editor of Gut (2003-2009) and member of the Board of the Rome Foundation (2000-2015), he twice edited the… |
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Professor Christopher Hawkey | Christopher Hawkey is Professor of Gastroenterology at the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre. His main interests are in the field of non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs and inflammatory bowel disease. In both areas his approach is to try to identify… |
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Professor Luca Marciani | I graduated in Physics at the University of Genoa in Italy. I then worked in Milan and London before joining the University of Nottingham, where I was awarded my PhD in Physics. Following a series of multi-disciplinary research contracts and Fellowships… |
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Professor Nigel Minton | Nigel is a relative newcomer to academia. He established the Clostridia Research Group (CRG) in 2004, following 25 years of service in the applied environment of the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research (CAMR), Porton Down. At CAMR he fulfilled a… |
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Dr Maura Corsetti | Maura Corsetti graduated in Medicine and obtained her Specialization (2000) and PhD (2004) at the Universita' degli Studi di Milano in Italy. During her PhD she worked for two years (2001-2002) as a research fellow in the Gastrointestinal Motility and… |
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Dr Gordon Moran | Dr Moran did his undergraduate medical training at University of Malta Medical School and was awarded an MD in 1999. He completed his basic postgraduate training at St. Luke's Hospital in Malta and gained membership of the Royal College of Physicians of… |
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Helen Handford |