Role: Research Assistant
Email: andre.greenidge@cavehill.uwi.edu
André Greenidge graduated from the BSc programme at the UWI in 2001, joining the GA-CDRC as a research assistant in the Edmund Cohen Vascular Research laboratory in 2005. He first worked on developing a suite of genetic and molecular tests which may indicate a person’s predisposition for impaired wound resolution. Since then he has gone on to be the study coordinator of the Wound Healing Study (WHY study), investigating genetic and vascular risk factors in diabetic foot. Andre has also written a 14,000 word story, designed to inform public perceptions about HIV/AIDS. This story was adapted into a Stage Drama.
André’s research has focused on the application of cutting edge diagnostic techniques in the surveillance of diabetes, and the earlier identification of risk factors for complications of the disease. Being able to add the unique laboratory perspective to the research collective, he has been involved in all the major diabetes themed studies of the GA_CDRC in the past 8 years: as Study coordinator of the Wound Healing Study in Diabetes (WHY study), as co-investigator of the Barbados Diabetes Reversal Study, and as laboratory coordinator to the Health Of The Nation (HOTN) Study and the Hyperglycaemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Follow Up Study (HAPO FUS).
His current research theme is focused on investigating the utility of kidney injury and inflammation biomarkers as sentinels for other complications of diabetes, such as diabetic foot.
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