Welcome to the Wallace-Kelsey Research Foundation
Hamish Wallace
Our Clinical Director is Hamish Wallace MD, a paediatric oncologist, working at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. He is also a Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
Tom Kelsey
Our Technical Director is Tom Kelsey PhD, a Lecturer in Biomedical Machine Science at the School of Computer Science of the University of St Andrews.
What We Do
The Wallace-Kelsey Research Foundation Ltd. is a UK charity (registration number 116920) and a UK Limited Company (registration number 05591916).
We undertake and sponsor multidisciplinary and collaborative research projects aimed at improving the quality of life for childhood cancer survivors. Our main area of interest is reproduction - it is well known that chemo- and radiotherapies adversely affect reproductive capabilities, our aim is to quantify and mitigate these effects.
Featured Publication
Human Ovarian Reserve from Conception to the Menopause
Non-growing follicles (NGFs) in the ovary are precursors of eggs. The number of NGFs in an ovary has long been known to be related to age, and is of fundamental importance for assessment of ovarian reserve. In 2010 we published the first model of NGF population for healthy females from conception to menopause. The full paper can be downloaded from PLoS One.