Dr Hannah Botfield

Assistant Professor, Department of Inflammation and Ageing, School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunity, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, UK

Lecture Title: Modulating CSF dynamics for hydrocephalus therapy

Hannah Botfield is an Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham. Since 2010 her research has focussed on understanding the pathology behind CSF dysfunction in disorders such as hydrocephalus and haemorrhagic stroke, with an emphasis on the role of inflammation, matrix biology and drug delivery. She has assessed therapies that target different aspects of the CSF dynamics pathway; from the choroid plexus to reduce CSF secretion, to the subarachnoid space to promote CSF drainage.

As an early career researcher she was awarded the Young Investigator Award, International Society for Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders (2012) and the President’s Prize, Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida (2012). Hannah is currently a member of the executive committee and the membership secretary for the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida.