Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Profile

Qualifications

BSc, PhD, PG Cert.Ed

Internal memberships / posts

Deputy Admissions Tutor (BSc Pharmacology)
Facilitator for inter-professional learning
Science Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee

External memberships

British Pharmacological Society (BPS)
European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)

Key teaching responsibilities

Level 1:  Autonomic nervous system
Level 2:  Renal system, physiology and pharmacology of cardiovascular system
Level 3:  Physiology and pharmacology of cardiovascular system

Key research interests

Biomedical topics: oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, non-freezing cold injury, organ preservation.
Director of Studies / supervisor for postgraduate students at PhD and MD level
Key research grants obtained in the last 5 years include equipment grant NHS-Academic Research Development Fund. Clinical collaboration with NHS in diabetes (The Portsmouth Dysglycaemia, Oxidative Stress and the Vascular Endothelium (DOVE) Project). Pedagogic topic: student learning.

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications before 2006

Laight DW, Therapeutic approaches to organ preservation injury, Expert Opin. Ther. Patents, in press 2005.

Fayers K, Cummings MH, Shaw KM & Laight DW, Nitrate tolerance and the links with endothelial dysfunction and oxidative stress, Br. J. Clin. Pharmacol., 56, 620-628, 2003.

Wotherspoon F, Laight DW, Shaw KM & Cummings MH, Homocysteine, endothelial dysfunction and oxidative stress in type 1 diabetes mellitus, Br. J. Diabetes Vasc. Dis., 3, 334-340, 2003.

Laight DW, Therapeutic approaches to the management of dysmetabolic cardiovascular disease. Expert Opin. Ther. Patents, 12, 615-620, 2002.

Laight DW, Desai KM, Anggard EE & Carrier MJ, Endothelial dysfunction accompanies a pro-oxidant, pro-diabetic challenge in the insulin resistant obese Zucker rat in vivo, Eur. J. Pharmacol., 402, 95-99 2000.