Senior Lecturer (VC2020) in Biomedical & Medical Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, UK
Contact Details
Email: antonio.pena-fernandez@dmu.ac.uk
Institutional profile: www.dmu.ac.uk/antoniopenafernandez
Research profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio_Pena-Fernandez
Personal profile:
Dr Antonio Peña-Fernández is a Senior Lecturer (VC2020) in Biomedical & Medical Sciences in the School of Allied Health Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He has a BSc in Chemistry from the University of San Pablo CEU, Spain (2000), a MSc in Toxicology from the University of Sevilla, Spain (2006), and a PhD in Physiology and Toxicology from the University of Alcalá (2011). Antonio’s interests include parasitology, toxicology, and environmental and public health.
Dr Peña-Fernández is also a Senior Fellow of the HEA (SFHEA) and he is involved in pedagogic research, e-learning development and curriculum design. Antonio is the project lead of the DMU eParasitology.
His research work focused in studying the prevalence of emerging human parasites in urban environments in Leicester (UK) and in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (Spain) and the risks for humans that these may have. The characterisation of risks passes through identifying the presence and distribution of different parasites in these two cities for establishing protocols and interventions to prevent transmission to protect public health.
Antonio is also working in human biomonitoring as a tool for the assessment of internal doses of contaminants, particularly metals and metalloids, and the study of these compounds in urban and industrial environments for the characterisation of risks and the development of protocols to protect the human health.
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Antonio is the project lead and has participated in the development of the following units:
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chris.young@dmu.ac.uk
Early career academic fellow in Biomedical & Medical Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, UK
Contact Details
Email: Michael.randles@dmu.ac.uk
Institutional profile: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/health-and-life-sciences/michael-randles/michael-randles.aspx
Research profile: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=J9xRdjAAAAAJ&hl=en
Personal profile:
Dr Michael Randles is an early career academic fellow in Biomedical & Medical Sciences in the School of Allied Health Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He has a BScHons in Biochemistry with Medical Biochemistry from the University of Bristol, UK (2011), and a PhD in Biomedicine from the University of Manchester (2014). Michael’s interests include podocyte biology, extracellular matrix biology, mass spectrometry based proteomics and rare renal diseases.
His research work focused in studying Alport syndrome, a rare glomerular disease, which is caused by mutations in extracellular matrix type IV collagen genes and leads to progressive kidney disease and sensorineural hearing loss. In addition, he is perusing collaborations studying the extracellular matrix in kidney aging and lung fibrosis.
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Michael has participated in the development of the following units:
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