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Professor Neil Rajan

Professor of Dermatogenetics and Honorary Consultant Dermatologist

Background

Prof. Neil Rajan M.D. PhD is a principal investigator and honorary consultant dermatologist. He started his own lab group with funding from the Wellcome Trust and the MRC and is passionate about translational research in rare genetic skin disease. He has received 9 national awards including the Whimster Prize and Honorary Membership to the Hungarian Dermatological Society for his work on CYLD cutaneous syndrome. 

Patient partnership is central to his work. His research group engages the public and patients at events such as Rare Disease Day. He has >110 peer reviewed publications in Lancet Oncology, JAMA Dermatology, Nature Communications, Nature and Science. His basic science research programme is coupled with the delivery of early phase clinical trials in rare disease, an exemplar of which is the TRAC study in CYLD cutaneous syndrome, where he was chief investigator. He works with patients with inherited skin tumour syndromes to jointly advance understanding of how skin tumours form, with the intent of developing new therapeutic strategies.

 

Area of expertise


  • Dermatogenetics
  • Skin Cancer
  • Rare disease

 

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Research

I am a proponent of mainstreaming genomics into the practice of clinical dermatology in the NHS. I use genetics for diagnostics, discovery of novel therapeutics and disease stratification.

 

Teaching

Mentoring clinical trainees and scientists to recognise the importance of research to is critical for the development of future researchers in the NHS, which underpins excellent service delivery. I have mentored dermatology specialist trainees in a range skin genetics research projects, three of whom have won national prizes.

 

Publications