The National Research Study on the Bone Complications in Gauchers Disease is funded by the Gauchers Association and has recently been reinforced by the two year appointment of Dr. Elena Pavlova MD, PhD, writes Prof Timothy Cox.
'Dr Elena Pavlova is a medical graduate from the Medical Faculty of Yakutsk State University and did her PhD in Sechenov's Medical Academy in Moscow where she worked in the Research Centre of Children's Health supported by the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.
Dr Pavlova has a background in paediatrics and her thesis, supervised by Professor A. Baranov, concerned the pathology of Gauchers disease in children. Dr Pavlova was twice awarded the Young Scientist Award of the Russian Union of Paediatricians. She has a particular interest in liver pathology and the bone complications of Gaucher disease and has an extensive experience of the application of molecular and biomedical techniques to the diagnosis of inherited metabolic diseases - she is thus ideally suited to join the four Centres who are engaged in the understanding of the bone complications of Gaucher disease in children and adults as supported by the Gauchers Association.
'Dr Pavlova, who is married with a young son, came to Cambridge from Yakutsk, Russia in late October 2005 and after her initial introductions to the medical and scientific scene in the UK will be visiting all four centres and will be participating in the collection of clinical data and analysis of biomarker and other markers of bone disease envisaged as Phase 2 of the project.
She will be joining Sister Jane Tindall and the Directors of the Centres in the completion of the recruitment for the study. We all wish to extend a warm welcome to Elena in this bold cultural move which we hope will make the world of Gauchers disease smaller and greatly enhance the outcome of the project'.
Source: Gauchers News December 2005.
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