University of St Andrews
 
  
 

Research

Multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches have been central to the continued success of medical research in St Andrews. Internationally recognised research programmes in various aspects of molecular medicine, psychology and community health sciences are currently being promoted and extended.

Strategically planned new staff appointments over the next decade, and our move to new purpose-built research facilities within the new Medical School building will provide the infrastructure and academic environment to ensure the sustained development and expansion of medical research in St Andrews in the future

Research themes

 


Latest Publications (50)

Giricz, O , Reynolds, PA , Ramnauth, A, Liu, C, Wang, T, Stead, L, Childs, G, Rohan, T, Shapiro, N, Fineberg, S, Kenny, P & Loudig, O 2012, ' Hsa-miR-375 Is Differentially Expressed During Breast Lobular Neoplasia And Promotes Loss Of Mammary Acinar Polarity ', Journal of Pathology , vol 226, no. 1 pg 108-119.
Lu, J , Stewart, AJ , Sleep, D, Sadler, PJ, Pinheiro, TJT & Blindauer, CA 2012, ' A molecular mechanism for modulating plasma Zn speciation by fatty acids. ', Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 134, pp. 1454-1457.
Siler, M , Cizmar, T & Zemanek, P 2012, ' Speed enhancement of multi-particle chain in a traveling standing wave ', Applied Physics Letters , vol 100, no. 5, pp. -.
Shearer, MC 2012, ' Workshop: Ethics in everyday practice ', Annual meeting of the University Departments of General Practice in Scotland, Dundee, United Kingdom , 19/01/12 - 20/01/12 , .
Lenart, I, Guiliano, DB, Burn, G , Campbell, EC , Morley, KD, Fussell, H , Powis, SJ & Antoniou, AN 2012, ' The MHC Class I Heavy Chain Structurally Conserved Cysteines 101 and 164 Participate in HLA-B27 Dimer Formation ', Antioxidants and Redox Signalling , vol 16, no. 1, pp. 33-43.
Levin, KA 2012, ' Glasgow smiles better: An examination of adolescent mental well-being and the 'Glasgow Effect'. ', Public Health , vol 126, no. 2, pp. 96-103.
Elia, J, Glessner, JT, Wang, K, Takahashi, N, Shtir, CJ, Hadley, D, Sleiman, PMA, Zhang, H, Kim, CE, Robison, R, Lyon, GJ, Flory, JH, Bradfield, JP, Imielinski, M, Hou, C, Frackelton, EC, Chiavacci, RM, Sakurai, T, Rabin, C, Middleton, FA, Thomas, KA, Garris, M, Mentch, F, Freitag, CM, Steinhausen, H, Todorov, AA, Reif, A, Rothenberger, A, Franke, B, Mick, EO, Roeyers, H, Buitelaar, J, Lesch, K, Banaschewski, T, Ebstein, RP, Mulas, F, Oades, RD, Sergeant, J, Sonuga-Barke, E, Renner, TJ, Romanos, M, Romanos, J, Warnke, A, Walitza, S, Meyer, J, Palmason, H, Seitz, C, Loo, SK, Smalley, SL, Biederman, J , Kent, L , Asherson, P, Anney, RJL, Gaynor, JW, Shaw, P, Devoto, M, White, PS, Grant, SFA, Buxbaum, JD, Rapoport, JL, Williams, NM, Nelson, SF, Faraone, SV & Hakonarson, H 2012, ' Genome-wide copy number variation study associates metabotropic glutamate receptor gene networks with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ', Nature Genetics , vol 44, no. 1, pp. 78-U113.
Popovics, P & Stewart, AJ 2012, ' Putative roles for phospholipase C-eta enzymes in neuronal Ca 2+ signal modulation. ', Biochemical Society Transactions , vol 40, pp. 282-286.
Browne, GP 2012, ' Poachers to gamekeepers: students as examiners ', The Clinical Teacher .
Makhadiyeva, D, Lam, L, Moatari, M, Vallance, J, Zheng, Y , Campbell, EC & Powis, SJ 2012, ' MHC class I dimer formation by alteration of the cellular redox environment and induction of apoptosis ', Immunology , vol 135, no. 2, pp. 133-139.
Williams, NM, Franke, B, Mick, E, Anney, RJL, Freitag, CM, Gill, M, Thapar, A, O'Donovan, MC, Owen, MJ, Holmans, P , Kent, L , Middleton, F, Zhang-James, Y, Liu, L, Meyer, J, Thuy Trang Nguyen, [V, Romanos, J, Romanos, M, Seitz, C, Renner, TJ, Walitza, S, Warnke, A, Palmason, H, Buitelaar, J, Rommelse, N, Vasquez, AA, Hawi, Z, Langley, K, Sergeant, J, Steinhausen, H, Roeyers, H, Biederman, J, Zaharieva, I, Hakonarson, H, Elia, J, Lionel, AC, Crosbie, J, Marshall, CR, Schachar, R, Scherer, SW, Todorov, A, Smalley, SL, Loo, S, Nelson, S, Shtir, C, Asherson, P, Reif, A, Lesch, K & Faraone, SV 2012, ' Genome-Wide Analysis of Copy Number Variants in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: The Role of Rare Variants and Duplications at 15q13.3 ', American journal of psychiatry , vol 169, no. 2, pp. 195-204.
Stergiakouli, E, Hamshere, M, Holmans, P, Langley, K, Zaharieva, I, Hawi, Z , Kent, L , Gill, M, Williams, N, Owen, MJ, O'Donovan, M, Thapar, A & ADHD Subgrp, Psychiat GWAS Consortium, deCODE Genetics 2012, ' Investigating the Contribution of Common Genetic Variants to the Risk and Pathogenesis of ADHD ', American journal of psychiatry , vol 169, no. 2, pp. 186-194.
Kirby, J , Levin, KA & Inchley, JC 2012, ' Associations between the school environment and adolescent girls' physical activity ', Health Education Research , vol 27, no. 1, pp. 101-114.
Levin, KA , Kirby, J & Currie, C 2012, ' Adolescent risk behaviours and mealtime routines: does family meal frequency alter the association between family structure and risk behaviour? ', Health Education Research , vol 27, no. 1, pp. 24-35.
Singh, K, laurenzi, M, Brown, M & Gillespie, SH 2012, ' Managing malaria in tuberculosis patients on fluoroquinolone-containing regimens: assessing the risk of QT prolongation. ', International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease , vol 16, no. 2, pp. 144-149.
Whitehead, R, Re, D , Xiao, D , Ozakinci, G & Perrett, DI 2012, ' You are what you eat: Within-subject increases in fruit and vegetable consumption confer beneficial skin-color changes ', PLoS One , vol 7, no. 3, pp. e32988.
Ploschner, M , Cizmar, T , Mazilu, M , Di Falco, A & Dholakia, K 2012, ' Bidirectional Optical Sorting of Gold Nanoparticles ', Nano Letters , vol 12, no. 4, pp. 1923-1927.
Levin, KA , Kirby, JLM & Currie, C 2012, ' Family structure and breakfast consumption of 11-15year old boys and girls in Scotland, 1994-2010: a repeated cross-sectional study ', BMC PUBLIC HEALTH , vol 12.
Singh, KP, Brown, M, Murphy, ME & Gillespie, SH 2012, ' Moxifloxacin for tuberculosis ', LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES , vol 12, no. 3, pp. 176-176.
Coxon, G, Cooper, C , Gillespie, SH & McHugh, T 2012, ' Strategies and challenges involved in the discovery of new chemical entities during early-stage tuberculosis drug discovery ', pp. S1-7 , Journal of Infectious Diseases , Infectious Diseases Society America.
Levin, KA , Inchley, JC , Currie, DB & Currie, C 2012, ' Subjective health and mental well-being of adolescents and the health promoting school: A cross-sectional multilevel analysis ', Health Education , vol 112, pp. 170-184.
Durkin, K, Hunter, S , Levin, KA , Bergin, D, Heim, D & Howe, C 2012, ' Discriminatory peer aggression among children as a function of minority status and group proportion in school context. ', European Journal of Social Psychology , vol 42, no. 2, pp. 243-251.
Levin, KA , Dallago, L & Currie, C 2012, ' The association between adolescent life satisfaction, family structure, family affluence and gender differences in parent-child communication. ', Social Indicators Research , vol 106, no. 2, pp. 287-305.
Humphris, GM , Zhou, Y & Forbes, GM 2012 , The BEHAVE Study (2008 - 2012): Investigation into the Childsmile Nursery Fluoride Varnish Programme, In House , University of St Andrews.
Lu, J , Stewart, AJ , Sadler, PJ, Pinheiro, TJT & Blindauer, CA 2012, ' Allosteric inhibition of cobalt binding to albumin by fatty acids: Implications for the detection of myocardial ischemia. ', Journal of Medicinal Chemistry , vol 55, pp. 4425-4430.
Levin, KA & Kirby, JLM 2012, ' Irregular breakfast consumption in adolescence and the family environment: Underlying causes by family structure ', Appetite , vol 59, no. 1, pp. 63-70.
Majorek, KA, Porebski, PJ, Dayal, A, Zimmerman, MD, Jablonska, K , Stewart, AJ , Chruszcz, M & Minor, W 2012, ' Structural and immunologic characterization of bovine, horse, and rabbit serum albumins. ', Molecular Immunology .
Bhopal, R, Smith, C, Smith, J, Craig, P, Sans, S, Littlejohn, C , Donnelly, PD , Gruer, L, Crombie, I & Dunbar, J 2012, ' World Congress of Epidemiology 2011: themes and highlights ', Public Health , vol 126, pp. 179-184.
Jackson, CM 2012, ' A randomized primary care trial of steroid titration against mannitol in persistent asthma: STAMINA trial. ', Chest , pp. 607 -615.
Dalgarno, HIC , Cizmar, T , Vettenburg, T , Nylk, J , Gunn-Moore, FJ & Dholakia, K 2012, ' Wavefront corrected light sheet microscopy in turbid media ', Applied Physics Letters , vol 100, pp. 191108 .
Moleirinho, S, Chang, N, Sims, A, Tilston-Lunel, AM, Angus, L, Steele, A, Boswell, V, Barnett, S, Ormandy, C, Faratian, D , Gunn-Moore, FJ & Reynolds, PA 2012, ' KIBRA Exhibits MST-independent Functional Regulation of the Hippo Signaling Pathway in Mammals ', Oncogene .
Popovics, P & Stewart, AJ 2012, ' Phospholipase C-eta activity may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease-associated calciumopathy. ', Journal of Alzheimer's Disease .
Farhat, T, Simons-Morton, B, Kokkevi, A , van der Sluijs, W , Fotiou, A & Kuntsche, E 2012, ' Early Adolescent and Peer Drinking Homogeneity: Similarities and Differences Among European and North American Countries ', Journal of early adolescence , vol 32, no. 1, pp. 81-103.
Ghazali, N, Cadwallader, E, Lowe, D , Humphris, GM , Ozakinci, G & Rogers, S 2012, ' Fear of Recurrence Amongst Head and Neck Cancer Survivors: Longitudinal Trends ', Psycho-Oncology .
Gordon, V , Williams, DJ & Donnelly, PD 2012, ' Exploring the relationship between ADHD symptoms and prison breaches of discipline amongst youths in four Scottish prisons ', Public Health , vol 126, no. 4, pp. 343-348.
Soo, C, Zheng, Y , Campbell, EC , Riches, AC , Gunn-Moore, FJ & Powis, SJ 2012, ' Nanoparticle trackinganalysismonitors exosome and microvesicle secretion from immune cells ', Immunology , vol 136, no. 2, pp. 192-6.
Schlecht, N, Brandwein-Gensler , M, Smith , R, Kawachi, N, Broughel, D, Lin, J, Keller , C , Reynolds, PA , Gunn-Moore, FJ , Harris, T, Childs, G, Belbin, T & Prystowsky, M 2012, ' Cytoplasmic Ezrin and Moesin Correlate with Poor Survival in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma ', Head and Neck Pathology .
Muldoon, JC & Catts, R 2012, ' Social capital transitions of 'Get Ready For Work' trainees ', in J Allen & R Catts (eds) , Social Capital Practices and Young People Policy Press, Bristol.
Whitehead, R , Coetzee, V , Ozakinci, G & Perrett, DI 2012, ' Cross-cultural Effects of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption on Skin Color. ', American Journal of Public Health , vol 102, no. 2, pp. 212-213.
Whitehead, R , Ozakinci, G , Stephen, ID & Perrett, DI 2012, ' Appealing to Vanity: Could Seeing Potential Appearance-Gains Motivate Fruit and Vegetable Consumption? ', American Journal of Public Health , vol 102, no. 2, pp. 207-211.
Angus, L, Moleirinho, S , Herron, LR , Sinha, A, Zhang, X, Niestrata, M , Dholakia, K , Prystowsky, M, Harvey, K , Reynolds, PA & Gunn-Moore, FJ 2012, ' Willin/FRMD6 Expression Activates the Hippo Signaling Pathway Kinases in Mammals and Antagonizes Oncogenic YAP ', Oncogene , vol 31, no. 2, pp. 238-250.
Cizmar, T , Brzobohaty, O , Dholakia, K & Zemanek, P 2011, ' The holographic optical micro-manipulation system based on counter-propagating beams ', LASER PHYSICS LETTERS , vol 8, no. 1, pp. 50-56.
Newbury, DF , Paracchini, S , Scerri, TS, Winchester, L, Addis, L, Richardson, AJ, Walter, J, Stein, JF, Talcott, JB & Monaco, AP 2011, ' Investigation of Dyslexia and SLI Risk Variants in Reading- and Language-Impaired Subjects ', Behavior Genetics , vol 41, no. 1, pp. 90-104.
Popovics, P & Stewart, AJ 2011, ' GPR39: A Zn 2+ -activated G protein-coupled receptor that regulates pancreatic, gastrointestinal and neuronal functions. ', Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences , vol 68, pp. 85-95.
Tan, KM , Herrington, CS & Brown, CTA 2011, ' Discrimination of normal from pre-malignant cervical tissue by Raman mapping of de-paraffinized histological tissue sections ', Journal of Biophotonics , vol 4, no. 1-2, pp. 40-48.
Gillespie, SH 2011, ' Tuberculosis: forgotten but not gone ', Mircobiology Today , vol 38, no. 1, pp. 34-37.
Cizmar, T , Mazilu, M , Dalgarno, H , Ashok, P , Gunn-Moore, F & Dholakia, K 2011, ' Optical sculpting: trapping through disorder and transfer of orbital angular momentum ', in DL Andrews, EJ Galvez & J Gluckstad (eds) , Complex Light and Optical Forces V Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 7950, SPIE, pp. 79500R, Conference on Complex Light and Optical Forces V , San Francisco, CA, United States , 26/01/11 .
Cizmar, T , Dalgarno, HIC , Ashok, PC , Gunn-Moore, FJ & Dholakia, K 2011, ' Interference-free superposition of nonzero order light modes: Functionalized optical landscapes ', Applied Physics Letters , vol 98, no. 8.
Rushmer, R , Themessel-Huber, M , Coyle, J , Humphris, GM , Dowell, J & Williams, B 2011, ' Is the routine recording of primary care consultations possible ... and desirable? Lessons for researchers from a consultation with multiple stakeholders ', Patient Education and Counseling , vol 82, no. 2, pp. 247-253.
Del Piccolo, L, de Haes, H, Heaven, C, Jansen, J, Verheul, W, Bensing, J, Bergvik, S, Deveugele, M, Eide, H, Fletcher, I, Goss, C , Humphris, GM , Kim, Y, Langewitz, W, Mazzi, MA, Mjaaland, T, Moretti, F, Nuebling, M, Rimondini, M, Salmon, P, Sibbern, T, Skre, I, van Dulmen, S, Wissow, L, Young, B, Zandbelt, L, Zimmermann, C & Finset, A 2011, ' Development of the Verona coding definitions of emotional sequences to code health providers' responses (VR-CoDES-P) to patient cues and concerns ', Patient Education and Counseling , vol 82, no. 2, pp. 149-155.