Prof. Neil Rajan M.D. PhD is a principal investigator and honorary consultant dermatologist. He started his own lab group with funding from the Wellcome Trust and the MRC and is passionate about translational research in rare genetic skin disease. He has received 9 national awards including the Whimster Prize and Honorary Membership to the Hungarian Dermatological Society for his work on CYLD cutaneous syndrome.
Patient partnership is central to his work. His research group engages the public and patients at events such as Rare Disease Day. He has more than 90 peer reviewed publications in Lancet Oncology, Oncogene, JAMA Dermatology, Nature Communications 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 works with patients with inherited skin tumour syndromes to jointly advance understanding of how skin tumours form, with the intent of developing new therapeutic strategies.
