Adrian Woolf

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Professor Adrian S. Woolf

Room D2515, Michael Smith Building, University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK

Email: adrian.woolf@manchester.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 1534

University of Manchester

Chair of Paediatric Science (from 2010), Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health 

Centre Lead, Paediatrics and Child Health, Institute of Human Development (2014-2016)

Board Member, Manchester Regenerative Medicine Network (from 2016)

Member, Cross Faculty Renal Biology Group (from 2013)

Chair, Faculty Academic Malpractice Panel (from 2015)

Royal Manchester Children''s Hospital

Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Nephrology (from 2010; revalidated 2015)

Member of Greater Manchester Academic Nephrology Network (from 2015) 

President, Manchester Paediatric Club section of Manchester Medical Society (from 2016)

Manchester Medical School

Lead for Phase II Nutrition, Metabolism and Excretion Module, Manchester Medical School (2011-2014)

Academic Advisor and ePortfolio Reviewer for undergraduates, Manchester Medical School (2010-present)

Outside Manchester

Honorary Professor University College London (from 2010)

Kidney Research UK Trustee (from 2012), Alumni/Career Development Ambassador (from 2013) and Chair of Research Strategy Committee (from 2014)

Member of UK National Renal Research Strategy Steering Group (2014-2016)

Member of European Society for Paediatric Nephrology Working Group on Congenital Urinary Tract and Kidney Malformations (from 2014)

Biography

In 2010 I took up a new Chair, Professor of Paediatric Science at the University of Manchester. 

I am also an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Nephrology in the Royal Manchester Children''s Hospital.

Previously, in 1998, I established an academic centre for Nephrology and Urology at the UCL Institute of Child Health, London, which I headed until the end of 2009.

A main research aim is to find out why people are sometimes born with abnormal kidneys, ureters and bladders. These are the key causes of children needing long term renal dialysis and kidney transplantation.

I am also working on translational therapies, including those based on growth factors and precursor cells, for kidney, bladder and, more recently, neural disease.

My research and development work unites speciality clinical services with new perspectives from Developmental, Cell Biology and Genomic sciences. I have published 142 original research publications and have an ''h''factor of 54 (Web of Science).

I have supervised clinical and science students leading to 16 PhD, three MD, six MRes, two MSc and one MPhil awarded theses.

I currenlty supervise three PhD students (one as lead supervisor) and one MRes student.

In 2015, The Renal Association gave me their Lockwood Award, and I was their 2016 de Wardener Lecturer, both in recognition of my outstanding record in research and teaching.

From 2006-2009 I undertook a clinic at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, focusing on renal tract malformations, which had an impact on diagnosis of these conditions and genetic counseling. With clinical genetics and adult nephrology colleagues, I established a similar clinic in the Royal Manchester Children''s Hospital in 2010. In 2012, we established another clinic, in St Mary''s Hospital, to assess adults with a family history of kidney disease.

I was a Trustee and Honorary Secretary of The Renal Association (2000-2004). I was the Research Secretary of the British Association for Paediatric Nephrology (2000-2002). I served on the National Kidney Research Fund grants committee (1997-2002). I became a Trustee of Kidney Research UK in 2012, with a special remit in the Alumni/Research Career Development programme and in 2014 I was appointed as Chair the charity''s Research Strategy Committee.