Dr Andy Salmon

Biography

Andy Salmon trained in clinical medicine at the University of Bristol, graduating in 1998. Junior doctor posts in general medicine in the South West of England, Nottingham and New Zealand were followed by a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship in the Microvascular Research Laboratories in the Department of Physiology in Bristol, leading to a PhD examining intrinsic regulation of glomerular permeability. He undertook a Clinical Lectureship in Nephrology at the Academic Renal Unit in Bristol, alongside Specialist Registrar training in Nephrology. He took up a Medical Research Council and Academy of Medical Sciences-funded Clinician Scientist Fellowship in December 2009, based in the Microvascular Research Laboratories at the University of Bristol, as well as working with Prof janos Peti-Peterdi at the University of Southern California. His research interests centre around regulation of microvascular permeability in systemic and glomerular vessels.