
Centres participating in the A-STAR project

Bristol Childrens’ Hospital
Site PI: Dr Louise Newell, Consultant Dermatologist, Bristol Royal Infirmary and Bristol Children’s Hospital.



Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
For children
Site PI: Professor Carsten Flohr (A-STAR Chief Investigator), Professor, Unit for Paediatric and Population-Based Dermatology Research, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London.
For adults
Site PI: Dr Richard Woolf, Consultant Dermatologist, Joint Service Lead and Lead for Medical Dermatology, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.


Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Broadgreen Hospital
Site PI: Dr Ben Thompson
MRC Human Immunology Unit and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Site PI: Joanne Searle


North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and The James Cook University Hospital NHS Trust
Site PI: Dr Sharmela Darne


Royal Children’s Hospital Glasgow
Site PI: Dr Paula Beattie, Consultant Dermatologist, Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Glasgow.


Sheffield Teaching Hospital and Sheffield Children’s Hospital
Site PI: Professor Mike Cork, Head of Sheffield Dermatology Research in the Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Sheffield Medical School. Honorary Consultant Dermatologist, Sheffield Children´s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


University Hospital of Wales
Site PI: Dr John Ingram, Senior Lecturer and Consultant Dermatologist, Cardiff University and Cardiff & Vale University Health Board.

University of Dundee, NHS Tayside, Ninewells Hospital
Site PI: Dr Ross Hearn, Consultant Dermatologist, NHS Tayside, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School.

University of Edinburgh, NHS Lothian's University Hospitals
Site PI: Professor Richard Weller, Professor and Honorary Consultant Dermatologist, University of Edinburgh, NHS Lothian’s University Hospitals.

University of Manchester, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Site PI: Professor Richard Warren, Professor of Dermatology and Therapeutics and Honorary Consultant Dermatologist, The University of Manchester.

University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Site PI: Professor Nick Reynolds, Professor of Dermatology and Honorary Consultant Dermatologist, Newcastle University and Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

University of Southhampton, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Site PI: Professor Dr Michael R. Ardern-Jones, Professor of Dermatology, University of Southampton.


West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Site PI: Dr Victoria Brown, Consultant Dermatologist, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.





Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: West Middlesex Hospital
Site PI: Jerome Baldago


University Hospitals Birmingham
Site PIs: Dr Effie Ladoyanni (Solihull Hospital) and Dr Ser-Ling Chua (Queen Elizabeth Hospital)