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Co-Creation of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit focused on self-management of respiratory health issues in people with intellectual disabilities

Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Leary, L., Dicksit, D., Ring, N., Roberts, N., Dunham, M., Devitt, J., Taylor, J., Mcglade, I., & Theurer, M. (2025, September)
Co-Creation of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit focused on self-management of respiratory health issues in people with intellectual disabilities. Presented at European Respiratory Society Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands

ExtraCECI: a community-based person-centred-enhanced care intervention to improve the quality of life and person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS in Ghana—protocol for cluster randomised controlled trial

Journal Article
Abboah-Offei, M., Elsey, H., Nkhoma, K. B., Abboah-Offei, S., Keding, A., Fenty, J., Yakimova, A., Hewitt, C., Dzansi, G., Senoo-Dogbey, V. E., Ayisi Addo, S., Akazili, J., Ayim, A., & Harding, R. (2025)
ExtraCECI: a community-based person-centred-enhanced care intervention to improve the quality of life and person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS in Ghana—protocol for cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 15(5), Article e102692. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-102692
Introduction - People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) have complex physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs following diagnosis and poorer health-related quality of li...

Biomarkers of insulin resistance and their performance as predictors of treatment response in overweight adults

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Brogan, R. J., Rooyackers, O., Phillips, B. E., Twelkmeyer, B., Ross, L. M., Atherton, P. J., Kraus, W. E., Timmons, J. A., & Gallagher, I. J. (online)
Biomarkers of insulin resistance and their performance as predictors of treatment response in overweight adults. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Article dgaf285. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaf285
Context Insulin Resistance (IR) contributes to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and is a risk factor for cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Ami...

Young men with intellectual disabilities’ perceptions of HPV and HPV vaccine: A qualitative study on how to communicate HPV vaccine information

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Carnegie, E., Gray-Brunton, C., Kennedy, C., Pow, J., Willis, D., & Whittaker, A. (2025)
Young men with intellectual disabilities’ perceptions of HPV and HPV vaccine: A qualitative study on how to communicate HPV vaccine information. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 21(1), Article 2491857. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2025.2491857
The success of vaccination programs relies on acceptance of recommended vaccines by communities and individuals. There is a paucity of evidence regarding how young men with in...

Commentary and methodological insights: Reaching girls/women, boys/men and vulnerable groups to maximise uptake for the Human papillomavirus vaccine

Journal Article
Gray Brunton, C., Pow, J., Carnegie, E., Petrova, D., Garcia Retamero, R., Whittaker, A., & Todorova, I. (2025)
Commentary and methodological insights: Reaching girls/women, boys/men and vulnerable groups to maximise uptake for the Human papillomavirus vaccine. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 21(1), Article 2478705. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2025.2478705
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been shown to be an effective cancer-prevention vaccine against oncogenic types of the HPV virus implicated in cervical, anogenital,...

Committee Advice on the safety of cannabidiol (CBD) isolate as a novel food for use in food supplements - RP354 [Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) Regulated Product Dossier Assessment]

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Foley, S. (2025)
Committee Advice on the safety of cannabidiol (CBD) isolate as a novel food for use in food supplements - RP354 [Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) Regulated Product Dossier Assessment]
An application was submitted to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) in February 2021 from Bridge Farm Group. (“the applicant”) for the authorisat...

Technical guidance to applicants for the authorisation of Precision Bred Organisms for food and feed: Draft (07.02.2025)

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Foley, S. (2025)
Technical guidance to applicants for the authorisation of Precision Bred Organisms for food and feed: Draft (07.02.2025
This draft guidance describes the scientific considerations required for evaluating the safety and nutritional aspects of Precision Bred Organisms (PBOs) when seeking marketin...

Committee Advice on the assessment of Pasteurised Akkermansia muciniphila as a novel food for use in supplements

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Foley, S. (2025)
Committee Advice on the assessment of Pasteurised Akkermansia muciniphila as a novel food for use in supplements

Sex differences in absolute and relative changes in muscle size following resistance training in healthy adults: a systematic review with Bayesian meta-analysis

Journal Article
Refalo, M. C., Nuckols, G., Galpin, A. J., Gallagher, I. J., Hamilton, D. L., & Fyfe, J. J. (2025)
Sex differences in absolute and relative changes in muscle size following resistance training in healthy adults: a systematic review with Bayesian meta-analysis. PeerJ, 13, Article e19042. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19042
Background Muscle hypertrophy may be influenced by biological differences between males and females. This meta-analysis investigated absolute and relative changes in muscle si...

ACNFP Advice on the safety of UV-treated A. Bisphorus Mushroom Powder with increased vitamin D2 as a novel food

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Foley, S. (2025)
ACNFP Advice on the safety of UV-treated A. Bisphorus Mushroom Powder with increased vitamin D2 as a novel food

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Fleming Fund mentorship

2025 - 2026
Fleming Fund mentorship
Funder: The University of Edinburgh | Value: £3,532

Fleming Fund mentorship

2025 - 2026
Mentorship of Fleming fund fellows from Malawi and Kenya
Funder: The University of Edinburgh | Value: £2,400

Sustainable wild seaweed

2025 - 2025
Investigating the options for the use of seaweed as an alternative source for nanocellulose production for the medical industry.
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £26,020

British Council - TNE Exploratory Grant - with ACU

2025 - 2025
Co-development of a Professional Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science - a first step to a long-term educational partnership between Edinburgh Napier University (UK) and Ahram Canadian University (Egypt)
Funder: British Council

Algumer Enzyme Protection

2024 - 2025
Solid detergents, such as laundry sheets represent an excellent way to reduce water, waste, storage and transport costs, and packaging. However the manufacturing process of the sheet involves exposure...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £7,394

Animal Health as a Climate Solution: Phase I

2024 - 2025
EDF requests a 12-month grant of $946,022 to support scoping and coordination to set the stage for global action on animal health as a climate solution. This Phase I effort will begin to develop a rob...
Funder: Environmental Defense Fund | Value: £18,674

Evaluation of a digital Solution for the Assessment and Management of Pain in Scottish Care Services

2024 - 2025
This project focuses on evaluating a digital solution for assessing and managing pain among individuals with moderate to severe dementia in Scottish Care Services. The evaluation will focus on whether...
Funder: Digital Health Institute | Value: £27,551

Screening novel drugs against human pathogens

2024 - 2024
Funder: Medical Research Scotland | Value: £2,520

Development of new sustainable approach in drug discovery: One-pot parallel synthetic strategy to minimise the environmental footprint

2024 - 2025
Over thousands of Medicinal Chemistry research groups around the world across academia, research-based institutions are involved in synthesizing libraries of compounds in the early drug discovery phas...
Funder: Royal Society of Chemistry | Value: £9,240

Development of an immobilized artificial membrane liquid chromatography /mass spectrometry-based platform to assess the pulmonary permeability of drug candidates.

2023 - 2023
In this project, 53 analytes whose apparent permeability through Calu-3 cell line is known from the literature (Lin, Chiu, Wang, & Tung, 2022) will be studied by immobilized artificial membrane (IAM)-...
Value: £2,650

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Quantifying antibiotic resistance and antibiotic resistance selective chemicals in the River Almond Catchment Area - a baseline for risk assessment and intervention

2023 - date
Fern Fairgrieve | Director of Studies: Dr Donald Morrison

Design of novel candidate PDK-X selective inhibitors as new drugs for the treatment of endometrial cancer, endometriosis and related conditions

2023 - date
Amy Dillon | Director of Studies: Dr Craig Stevens | Second Supervisor: Agnes Turnbull

Antibiotic Resistant Faecal Indicator Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistant Genes in Scottish Source Waters and Resistant Heterotrophic Bacteria in Treated Drinking Water Detected with Culture Dependent and Independent Methods

2022 - date
Muriel Chaudhri | Director of Studies: Dr Donald Morrison | Second Supervisor: Dr Fiona Stainsby

Do nanomedicines have the potential to combat antimicrobial resistance?

2022 - date
Bah Umaru | Director of Studies: Prof Nick Wheelhouse | Second Supervisor: Dr Samantha Donnellan

Nanocellulose-Host Defence Peptide (N-HDP) conjugates as a novel therapeutic antiviral technology

2022 - date
Connan Masson | Director of Studies: Prof Peter Barlow | Second Supervisor: Dr Mark Dorris

Evaluating existing smell retraining programmes and developing a multisensory smell retraining programme

2022 - date
Miss Emily Spencer | Director of Studies: Dr Duncan Carmichael | Second Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Drake

Design of a new fluorogenic molecular probe of lipases that will be specific for monoacylglycerol lipase

2021 - 2023
Judith Ajaezu | Director of Studies: Dr David Mincher | Second Supervisor: Agnes Turnbull

Design, synthesis and evaluation of hybrid intracellularly targeted anticancer and antimicrobial agents

2021 - 2023
Aziz Kiran | Director of Studies: Dr David Mincher | Second Supervisor: Agnes Turnbull

Manipulation of the plant microbiome to improve the quality and safety of fresh plant produce.

2021 - date
Adam Wareing | Director of Studies: Dr Sophie Foley | Second Supervisor: Prof Nick Wheelhouse

Characterisation of autophagy modulation by thiopurines in inflammatory bowel disease

2018 - 2021
Connan Masson | Director of Studies: Dr Craig Stevens | Second Supervisor: Prof Peter Barlow