Meet our team

Mr Brennan's research spans the laboratory and the clinic, combining molecular, epidemiology and clinical investigation to guide rationale innovation to improve patient care. He applies this strategy to improving diagnosis, treatment and outcomes for people with brain tumours, and traumatic brain or spinal injuries.

Mr Fouyas is a consultant neurosurgeon with extensive experience in skull base and neurovascular surgery. He contributes to a range of research projects in neurovascular conditions, collaborating with neurologists and interventional neuroradiologists.

Mr Liaquat is a consultant neurosurgeon and is the national clinical lead for the Scottish Adult Neuro-Oncology Network. He contributes to both preclinical and clinical neuro-oncology research in Edinburgh.

Mr Foster started his neurosurgery training in Liverpool, working at the Walton Centre and Alder Hey before moving to Edinburgh to work on an ECAT CRUK PhD fellowship. He is now a SCREDS clinical lecturer and neurosurgical registrar in Edinburgh. He is developing computational methods to identify new therapeutic vulnerabilities for Glioblastoma. He is especially interested in targeting the cells left after surgery which cause the cancer to come back.

Mr Poon is a SCREDS clinical lecturer and a clinical epidemiologist with expertise in population-based linked health data, medical biostatistics, and research methodology. His research focuses on developing optimal study designs to translate research findings into clinical practice, particularly for brain tumours. He collaborates with computer scientists, NLP ​​​​​practitioners, immunologists, radiologists, and health data scientists. He is passionate about academic training and regularly supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students' dissertations.

Mr Loan is a Wellcome Trust-funded ECAT clinical lecturer and honorary neurosurgical trainee who is passionate about finding solutions to the consequences of acute brain injury. He combines preclinical and clinical methodologies to understand processes of disease that are harmful or protective in patients and aim to use these to develop new treatments or optimise current management strategies.

• Diana Stamatopoulos (2023-present)
• Sophie Kruz (2021-2022)
• Kavan Nelson (2021-2022)
• Lewis McColm (2020-2022)
• Beth Fitt (2020-2021)
• Grace Loy (2020-2021)
• Morgan Bruce (2020-2021)
• Joseph Brennan (2019-2021)
• Billy Foo (2018-2022)

• Shivank Keni (2017-present)
• Callum Abbot (2020-2021)
• Mustafa El Sheikh (2019-2021)
• Sofian Al Shboul (2017-2021)
• Colleen Charlton (2019-2020)

• Sonia Rehman 
• Sinem Gul
• Yolanda Solans Bara
• Eleni Nestoros
• Estefania Esposito
• Sofian Al Shboul (completed 2021)
• Karolis Zienius (completed)
• Lloyd Hamilton (completed)
• Alhafidz Hamdan (completed 2022)