Ahsan Akram

Ahsan Akram (MBChB, PhD)

Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine
MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, QMRI

Tel: 0131 2429100
Email: ahsan.akram@ed.ac.uk

Street: Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre
MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine
The University of Edinburgh
Western General Hospital
Crewe Road
EDINBURGH
City
Post code: EH4 2XR

Street: The University of Edinburgh/MRC Centre for Inflammation Research
The Queen's Medical Research Institute
47 Little France Crescent
City: Edinburgh
Post code: EH16 4TJ

Biography

Background

Ahsan Akram is a Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Respiratory Medicine. He undertook a PhD in Pulmonary Optical Imaging (2012-2015) and now is planning to apply some of these modalities Lung Cancer for treatment stratification.

Qualifications

MBChB, MRCP, PhD

Teaching & PhD supervision

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Research

Research summary

Characterising and imaging the tumour microenvironment, developing translational imaging tools for human in vivo imaging.

Projects

Current project grants

Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist Fellowship. Fibroblast Activation Protein Expressing Cancer Associated Fibroblasts From Lung Cancer As Imaging Biomarkers For Immunotherapy Stratification. 2017-2022, £1.13M

Wellcome Trust Translation Fund Award. Clinical Validation of Optical Molecular Alveoscopy for the Immediate Bed-Side Diagnosis of Pneumonia in the Intensive Care Unit. Co-applicant on proposal, 2017-21, £3.1M.

Publications

Super-silent FRET Sensor Enables Live Cell Imaging and Flow Cytometric Stratification of Intracellular Serine Protease Activity in Neutrophils 10 Sep 2018 In: Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 13490
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31391-9
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Development of an Alveolar Transbronchial Catheter for Concurrent Fiber Optics-Based Imaging and Fluid Delivery 24 Jul 2018 In: Journal of Medical Devices, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 035003
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4040639
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Low-cost high sensitivity pulsed endomicroscopy to visualize tricolor optical signatures (12 pages) 10 Jul 2018 In: Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 1-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.23.7.076005
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Multi-class classification of pulmonary endomicroscopic images (4 pages) 23 May 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2018.8363874
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published)
British Thoracic Society quality standards for the investigation and management of pulmonary nodules 16 Apr 2018 In: BMJ Open Respiratory Research, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. e000273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2017-000273
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)

This article was published on Jun 14, 2019