West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Chloe Thomas is a Post-Doctoral Researcher within the Department of Biomedical Sciences. Her research interests are in ocular injury and disease and the development of novel therapeutics and in the identification of biomarkers for traumatic brain injury. She completed her PhD research on cell death mechanisms in the retina and optic nerve after blunt impact and explosive blast ocular trauma (2015 – 2018). She then performed a post-doctoral research project researching topical therapies for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (2018 – 2023). Dr Thomas has undertaken research placements at Vanderbilt University, TN USA and University of Bristol, UK. She is now a post-doctoral researcher within the mTBI-Predict consortium working in the biofluids workstream (2023 – present). Dr Thomas is part of the Translational Brain Science Research Group, the Neuro-Ocular Inflammation and Matrix Research Group and Neuroscience, Trauma and Ophthalmology . Staff profile: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/clinical-sciences/thomas-chloe.aspx
Post doctoral researcher working in the Biofluids work stream of mTBI-Predict clinical study, with Professor Lisa Hill and Lt Col Professor James Mitchell. We are looking to identify prognostic biomarkers for mild traumatic brain injury.
Post-doctotal researcher working with Dr Lisa Hill and Prof Alastair Denniston in School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, working on the delivery of immunotherapies for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Phd student supervised by Dr Zubair Ahmed and Dr Richard Blanch, looking at mechanisms of cell death in retinal ganglion cells in traumatic eye injuries. This project was funded by Fight for Sight.
For my BMedSci undergraduate, I perforned a 10 week dissertation projection. I investigated neuronal types in the dorsal hippocampus that are affected by altered oxygen concentrations. I was supervised by Professor Attila Sík and Dr Jozsef Pal. I gained immunohistochemical (fluorescence, Gallyas silver staining) and microscopic technique, and developed photoshop, analytical and presentation skills. I co-authored two publications from this project.
Summer project student (10 week summer studentship from The Physiological Society) in the CSF disorders group with Dr Alexandra Sinclair, Dr Ana Maria Gonzalez and Dr Hannah Botfield, helping to develop an in vitro model of CSF secretion using rat and porcine choroid plexus epithelial cells.
Summer project student (5 weeks) at University of Nottingham Cancer Research Genetics laboratory with Dr Marios Georgiou. I worked with the Drosophilia (fruit fly) model.