Professor Neil Hanley

Medicine and Health
Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Medicine and Health

Contact details

Email: n.hanley@bham.ac.uk

Address: University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Neil Hanley became Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Medicine and Health in September 2023. Neil previously was Vice-Dean (Research and Innovation) in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester.

Qualifications

PhD in Molecular Genetics - Newcastle University
MRCP Royal College of Physicians; now FRCP
MBChB - University of Edinburgh
BSc in Pharmacology - University of Edinburgh

Biography

Neil joined the University 麻豆精选 as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Medicine and Health in September 2023 and is also a practising Consultant Endocrinologist in the NHS.

Neil was first made full professor in 2006 and is a past president of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. Neil was at the University of Manchester from 2008-2023, becoming Director of Research and Innovation at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust in 2016, and Vice-Dean (Research and Innovation) in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in 2020. During this time, he has also served on the Council of his UK professional body, the Society for Endocrinology, and on the Board of the International Society of Endocrinology.

An expert in early human development and aspects of stem cell biology, Neil has held doctoral, intermediate, and senior clinical fellowships from NIHR or Wellcome, and additional funding as lead investigator from MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC, among others. During the last decade, this has led to outputs in places such as eLife, PNAS, and several Nature journals with over 8,000 citations. His current partnership as chief investigator with Innovate UK and industry leaders has translated collaborative discovery science into integrated novel diagnostics for the early detection of liver disease.

He recognises the critical role of innovation in the Life Sciences and Healthcare. In Manchester, he was a key player in helping to place industries within the university and NHS setting and is now continuing this work focused on healthcare outcomes and economic growth in the West Midlands, for example through and the .

Neil has a passion for education and training, having established an academy in Manchester for those embarking on their own research careers. He directed the Wellcome-funded PhD programme for healthcare professionals for 8 years across the universities of Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield, led the future vision of NIHR’s 2016 national review of training, and is the incoming Chair of the Molecular, Cellular & Physiological Sciences Eary Career Advisory Group at Wellcome.

Other activities

Association of Physicians (President, 2018-2019)
Society for Endocrinology (Council 2014-2018)
Endocrine Society
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Shapey, IM, Summers, A, O'Sullivan, J, Fullwood, C, Hanley, NA, Casey, J, Forbes, S, Rosenthal, M, Johnson, PRV, Choudhary, P, Bushnell, J, Shaw, JAM, Neiman, D, Shemer, R, Glaser, B, Dor, Y, Augustine, T, Rutter, MK & van Dellen, D 2023, '', Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism.

PHOSP-COVID study collaborative group, Jackson, C, Stewart, ID, Plekhanova, T, Cunningham, PS, Hazel, AL, Al-Sheklly, B, Aul, R, Bolton, CE, Chalder, T, Chalmers, JD, Chaudhuri, N, Docherty, AB, Donaldson, G, Edwardson, CL, Elneima, O, Greening, NJ, Hanley, NA, Harris, VC, Harrison, EM, Ho, L-P, Houchen-Wolloff, L, Howard, LS, Jolley, CJ, Jones, MG, Leavy, OC, Lewis, KE, Lone, NI, Marks, M, McAuley, HJC, McNarry, MA, Patel, BV, Piper-Hanley, K, Poinasamy, K, Raman, B, Richardson, M, Rivera-Ortega, P, Rowland-Jones, SL, Rowlands, AV, Saunders, RM, Scott, JT, Sereno, M, Shah, AM, Shikotra, A, Singapuri, A, Stanel, SC, Thorpe, M, Wootton, DG, Yates, T, Gisli Jenkins, R, Singh, SJ, Man, WD-C, Brightling, CE, Wain, LV, Porter, JC, Thompson, AAR, Horsley, A, Molyneaux, PL, Evans, RA, Jones, SE, Rutter, MK, Blaikley, JF & Sapey, E 2023, '', The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 673-684.

Wong, YF, Kumar, Y, Proks, M, Herrera, JAR, Rothov谩, MM, Monteiro, RS, Pozzi, S, Jennings, RE, Hanley, NA, Bickmore, WA & Brickman, JM 2023, '', Nature Cell Biology, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 481-492.

PHOSP-COVID study collaborative group 2023, '', American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 207, no. 6, pp. 693-703.

ISARIC4C Investigators, PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group, Liew, F, Talwar, S, Cross, A, Willett, BJ, Scott, S, Logan, N, Siggins, MK, Swieboda, D, Sidhu, JK, Efstathiou, C, Moore, SC, Davis, C, Mohamed, N, Nunag, J, King, C, Thompson, AAR, Rowland-jones, SL, Docherty, AB, Chalmers, JD, Ho, L-P, Horsley, A, Raman, B, Poinasamy, K, Marks, M, Kon, OM, Howard, L, Wootton, DG, Dunachie, S, Quint, JK, Evans, RA, Wain, LV, Fontanella, S, De Silva, TI, Ho, A, Harrison, E, Baillie, JK, Semple, MG, Brightling, C, Thwaites, RS, Turtle, L, Openshaw, PJM, Kamwa, V & Hanley, N 2023, '', EBioMedicine, vol. 87, 104402.

Purssell, H, Bennett, L, Street, O, Hanley, KP, Hanley, N, Vasant, DH & Athwal, VS 2023, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 8769.

PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group, Kamwa, V, Yip, KP & Hanley, N 2022, '', The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 761-775.

the ID-LIVER Consortium 2022, '', Frontiers in digital health, vol. 4, 737729.

van der Zanden, LFM, van Rooij, IALM, Quaedackers, JSLT, Nijman, RJM, Steffens, M, de Wall, LLL, Bongers, EMHF, Schaefer, F, Kirchner, M, Behnisch, R, Bayazit, AK, Caliskan, S, Obrycki, L, Montini, G, Duzova, A, Wuttke, M, Jennings, R, Hanley, NA, Milmoe, NJ, Winyard, PJD, Renkema, KY, Schreuder, MF, Roeleveld, N & Feitz, WFJ 2021, '', European Urology Open Science, vol. 28, pp. 26-35.

Shapey, IM, Summers, A, Khambalia, H, Yiannoullou, P, Fullwood, C, Hanley, NA, Augustine, T, Rutter, MK & van Dellen, D 2021, '', Diabetologia, vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 1375-1384.

Vekaria, B, Overton, C, Wi艣niowski, A, Ahmad, S, Aparicio-Castro, A, Curran-Sebastian, J, Eddleston, J, Hanley, NA, House, T, Kim, J, Olsen, W, Pampaka, M, Pellis, L, Ruiz, DP, Schofield, J, Shryane, N & Elliot, MJ 2021, '', BMC Infectious Diseases, vol. 21, no. 1, 700.

Shapey, IM, Tan, ZL, Gioco, R, Khambalia, H, Fullwood, C, Yiannoullou, P, Summers, A, Hanley, NA, Augustine, T, Rutter, MK & van Dellen, D 2021, '', Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 49-57.

PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group, Lord, J, Parekh, D, Kamwa, V, Yip, A & Hanley, N 2021, '', The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 1275-1287.

Comment/debate

Shapey, IM, Summers, A, Khambalia, H, Yiannoullou, P, Fullwood, C, Hanley, NA, Augustine, T, Rutter, MK & van Dellen, D 2021, '', Diabetologia, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 2124-2125.

Review article

Mysko, C, Landi, S, Purssell, H, Allen, AJ, Prince, M, Lindsay, G, Rodrigues, S, Irvine, J, Street, O, Gahloth, D, MacLennan, S, Piper Hanley, K, Hanley, N & Athwal, VS 2025, '', BJC Reports, vol. 3, no. 1, 13.