
Centres participating in the A-STAR project

Barts Health NHS Trust – Royal London Hospital
Site PI: Professor Edel O’Toole

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

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

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust – Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital
Site PI: Dr Caroline Owen

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust – St. Helier Hospital
Site PI: Dr Sophia Paget


Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Gloucester Royal Hospital
Site PI: Dr Deborah Moffitt

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust – Great Ormond Street Hospital
Site PI: Dr Gabriela Petrof

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.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Site PI: Dr Nasim Rouhani
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Leighton Hospital
Site PI: Nicole Lawson
NHS Fife
Site PI: Dr Ann Sergeant

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group – Broadgreen Hospital
Site PI: Dr Ben Thompson

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Site PI: Catherine Rennie


Oxford University
Site PI: Laura Davey
Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
Site PI: Dr Saurabh Mittal

Royal Children's Hospital Glasgow (& Adults)
Site PI: Dr Paula Beattie, Consultant Dermatologist, Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Glasgow.


Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Site PI: Professor Michael J 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.
South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital
Site PI: Dr Mary Murphy
South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Site PI: Dr Sharmela Darné

St James's Hospital Dublin
Site PI: Professor Alan Irvine
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Site PI: Dr Irene Man
University Hospital Galway
Site PI: Professor Trevor Markham

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust – Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Site PI: Dr Louise Newell, Consultant Dermatologist, Bristol Royal Infirmary and Bristol Children’s Hospital.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust – Leicester Royal Infirmary
Site PI: Dr Graham Johnston
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust – Worthing Hospital
Site PI: Dr Mahmud Ali


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

University of Manchester
Site PI: Professor Richard Warren, Professor of Dermatology and Therapeutics and Honorary Consultant Dermatologist, The University of Manchester.

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

University of Southampton
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.