Dr Sandra Campbell
Dr Sandra Campbell
Supernumerary Fellow in Physiology
Teaching Interests
I currently work in the Department of Pharmacology, Oxford. My departmental teaching contributes to the pre-clinical training of medical students and physiologists. I give lectures, seminars and practical demonstrations in the 1st BM course principally in the field of Pharmacology and Immunology. I supervise final year students for extended essay topics and experimental projects in Neuroscience. My college tutorial teaching includes Pharmacology and Physiology for the 1st year students, Neuroscience for the 2nd year students and I specialise in the teaching of axonal degeneration and multiple sclerosis for the Final Honours School. I also teach for Somerville College.
Research Interests
The focus of my research is to identify how inflammation contributes to the outcome of acute and chronic brain injury or infection. There is now considerable evidence to support the idea that inflammation contributes, in a deleterious manner, not only to the archetypal inflammatory disease of the brain, multiple sclerosis, but also to acute neurological diseases, such as stroke and head trauma, and to chronic neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, prion disease, and HIV-related dementia. I collaborate with the Department of Molecular Imaging to seek new ways to image brain pathologies and initiate therapy before too much irreversible damage to neurons occurs. I am one of the founders of Oxford Imaging, a start up company whose principal aim is in the commercialisation of MRI and PET imaging agents developed at The University of Oxford.
Other Information
I am currently a Departmental Teaching Fellow at the Department of Pharmacology. I have a PhD in Molecular Pharmacology from the University of Dundee, Scotland and have worked as a systems physiologist since obtaining my PhD in 1999.
