Clinical experts team
Gail Heritage
University of Oxford
Position
Senior Research Manager
What is your role in iPROLEPSIS?
UK PDPID coordinating center Manager
What are your main activities in the project?
UK Study manager
What is your motivation?
Contribution to clinical research to enhance patient experiences and disease outcomes.
Francesca Levi-Schaffer
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Position
Professor
What is your role in iPROLEPSIS?
Researcher
What are your main activities in the project?
To try to understand the passage from psoriasis to psoriatic arthritis by evaluating in skin biopsies vascularization, mast cell presence and to correlate this with involved joint vascularization
What is your motivation?
I would like to discover the connections between skin and joints and find a drug/s that can inhabit this progression
Laura Coates
Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford
Position
NIHR Research Professor
What is your role in iPROLEPSIS?
Lead for WP5 (clinical studies)
What are your main activities in the project?
I oversee all of the clinical studies within the consortium.
What is your motivation?
I am a rheumatologist who has worked in research in psoriatic arthritis for around 20 years. My interest is in improving outcomes for people living with psoriatic arthritis and I believe that work in this project can help us to predict, monitor and understand the disease better in day to day clinics.