Dr Rachel Lennon, University of Manchester
Tue 31 Jan 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI

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Rachel Lennon graduated from Nottingham University Medical School in 1994.

She trained in clinical paediatrics in Nottingham, London and the South Western Deanery and she completed subspecialty training in Paediatric Nephrology in Bristol. She was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship in 2004 and completed her PhD studying circulating mediators of podocyte injury in proteinuric states in 2007. Rachel was appointed to an Academic Clinical Lectureship in 2007 and in 2010 she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellowship to establish her research group in Manchester and to continue her research focussed on understanding mechanisms of glomerular disease. In 2016 Rachel was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in Clinical Science. Her research group is based in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research at the University of Manchester and her research is focussed on understanding mechanisms of glomerular disease. This is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease in adults and children and Rachel¹s overarching research question concerns how the glomerular filtration barrier is regulated in health and dysregulated in disease.