Dr Renuka Dias
Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Honorary Associate Clinical Professor at University of Birmingham), Deputy Theme Lead (Long-Term Health Conditions) – National Institute of Health and Care Research Health Technology Committee.
Renuka obtained her PhD from Queen Mary University of London. She is the lead for the National Highly Specialised Service for Wolfram Syndrome (Children) in Birmingham.
She is the lead paediatrician for the ELSA study and part of the EDENT1FI consortium. She is also the chief investigator for IMPACT-T1D and NHS-FIT. These projects aim to improve children and young people from disadvantaged communities taking part in type 1 diabetes research.
Her clinical research focuses on health inequalities and screening for type 1 diabetes, as well as finding disease modifying therapy for early type 1 diabetes. She also works with the LifeArc funded Rare Disease Translational Acceleration Platform (RD-TAP).
Renuka supervises PhD students in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, Aston University and University of Exeter.
She is chair of the programme organising committee for the British Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and an executive committee member of the British Thyroid Association.
Current grants (plus relevant ones in last 3-5 years)
IMPACT1D (NIHR RfPB - 2024)
NHS FIT (BreakThrough T1D – 2024)