BRC Leadership Track for Skin Disease, Oral Disease and Immunogenomics, PPIE Theme Lead, Communication and Impact Academic Lead, Professor of Dermatogenetics and Honorary Consultant Dermatologist
Neil Rajan M.D. PhD, is a Professor of Dermatogenetics, and is a principal investigator and honorary consultant dermatologist. He started his lab group with funding from the Wellcome Trust and the MRC and is passionate about translational research in rare genetic skin disease. He is a proponent of mainstreaming genetic testing, with the aim of reducing the “diagnostic odyssey” of patients living with genetic skin disease.
Patient partnership is central to his work. He works with groups including Lynch Syndrome UK, the Ichthyosis Support Group, DEBRA UK, PC Project to amplify the patient voice in research priority setting. He works with patients with inherited tumour syndromes to jointly advance understanding of how we can improve early detection cancer predisposition using skin tumours that arise in these conditions.
He has >110 peer reviewed publications in the Lancet Oncology, British Journal of 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 is part of the LifeArc centre for Acceleration of Rare Disease Trials (ARDT), that aims to accelerate clinical trials and improve access to new therapies for people living with rare disease.
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