Dr Zita-Rose Manjaly

Research

I am an academic clinical fellow and have recently joined the Jenner Institute initially for a year but planning to stay in the group for a DPhil before returning to complete my clinical speciality training . I am studying the immune profiles of patients with latent TB.

For my DPhil I am proposing to characterise the immune and gene expression profile in patients with a new diagnosis of TB disease, the change in immune profile with treatment and evaluate the effect of HIV infection on this profile. For my DPhil I will be recruiting patients in a clinical setting, monitoring their clinical progression and translating these into cellular and molecular immunological experiments in the laboratory. I am based at the Jenner Institute where I am performing immunological assays and gene expression studies.

In addition to my research training I am currently enrolled on a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Research at the Oxford University and a clinical tutor at Magdalen College teaching final year medical students.

Key Publications

1. Manjaly ZR, Sachdev B, Webb T, Rajappan K. “Ablation of arrythmia in pregnancy can be done safely when necessary“ European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. E pub ahead of print
2. Abstract: Manjaly ZR, Silva-Santos B, Vermijlen D, Oppenheim DE, Hayday AC. “The Role of Bruma, a novel protein related to unconventional MHC class Ib in non-adaptive immune responses.” Annual Conference of the European Network of Immunology 2005.
3. Drysdale S., Coulson T., Cronin N., Manjaly ZR, Piyasena C., Fox A., Ford-Adams M., Broughton S. “The impact of the National Patient Safety Agency intravenous fluid alert on iatrogenic hyponatraemia in children.” European Journal of Paediatrics. July 2010, 169(7):813-7 and authors reply to comment “Don`t forget Potassium” European Journal of Paediatrics August 2010; 169(8)
4. Manjaly ZR et al. The sex ration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A population based study, Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis 2010 Oct, 11(5):439-42