Asma Fikree
Clinical Research Fellow

Asma Fikree completed her preclinical training in Cambridge University and  was awarded a BA(Hons) in Psychology in 1999. She went on to do her clinical training in Oxford University and graduated with a BMBCh in 2002. Following completion of basic medical training in Bristol and London, she gained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 2006. That same year, she was appointed to the Higher Specialist Training Programme in Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine in the North East London Deanery. In April 2009, Asma took up her current post as a Clinical Research Fellow at the Wingate Institute for Neurogastroenterology.

Project: Evaluating the nature of the association between connective tissue disorders and functional gastrointestinal disorders

Connective tissue is ubiquitous throughout the body, and patients with hereditary connective tissue disorders have GI symptoms. Asma is interested in the role of abnormal connective tissue in contributing to functional GI disorders. She is planning on carrying out studies both on an epidemiological, cellular and genetic level to investigate the connective tissue profile in patients with gastrointestinal abnormalities, in the hope that this may help increase our understanding of the aetiology of these common disorders.