Biography
Kay is the Project Manager of the GuARDS Trial- a large multi-centre CTIMP lead by Manu Shankar-Hari as the chief investigator. Kay works collaboratively with colleagues in the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit and the Institute of Regeneration and Repaire to deliver this NIHR funded trial. Kay enjoys working in translational research.
She joined the Translational Healthcare Technologies Group at the UoE in 2019 to support the development of a pneumococcal human infection study. She then became involved in various projects to support the progress of the devices and Smartprobes in development in the group which gave her the experience for initiating the start-up activities for GuARDS.
Kay has also worked as a post-doctoral researcher and at The Roslin Institute where she had an interest in host-pathogen interactions working with the Stevens Group. Her experience in this area provides her with a greater understanding of the academic research environment.
Research
Centre for Critical Illness Research
CCIR, a cross-faculty centre for academic excellence, focusses on critical illness.CCIR brings together interdisciplinary academics and clinicians to translate early scientific breakthroughs into effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for critical illness and to enable healthy critical illness survivorship for children and adults.
Shankar-Hari Group
Our research aims to tackle a major global healthcare challenge in medicine: Sepsis
Research
Centre for Critical Illness Research
CCIR, a cross-faculty centre for academic excellence, focusses on critical illness.CCIR brings together interdisciplinary academics and clinicians to translate early scientific breakthroughs into effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for critical illness and to enable healthy critical illness survivorship for children and adults.
Shankar-Hari Group
Our research aims to tackle a major global healthcare challenge in medicine: Sepsis