Dr. Robert Shaw (MSci, PhD)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in PET Neuroimaging and University Teacher
- Centre for Cardiovascular Science
- Edinburgh Imaging
- Immunology and infection
Contact details
- Email: rshaw33@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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The Queen's Medical Research Institute
47 Little France Crescent
Edinburgh BioQuarter - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4TJ
Background
Robert Shaw is a Post-doctoral researcher in the Tavares group and is working on exploring changes in SV2A (a synaptic vehicle receptor) across age and sex, through analysis of PET scans. He is active within the Center for Cardiovascular Sciences, as the early career researcher lead for Cardiometabolic Imaging and member of the community committee. He is also a teacher within the Institute of Immunology and Infection. His previous postdoc was a collaborative project between the Tavares and Waldman groups as part of the MS Society Edinburgh Center for MS Research, within the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences. He completed his undergraduate MSci in Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow in 2017 before moving to a research assistant position within the University of Glasgow. He studied his PhD at the University of Edinburgh funded by the SPRINT-MND/MS PhD Programme working on the preclinical testing and validation of a novel radiotracer for imaging myelination/remyelination using PET imaging.
Undergraduate teaching
University Teacher in Immunology: Undergraduate teaching including lectures, tutorials and practical labs as well as designing and marking exams.
Postgraduate teaching
Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Supervised and taught both masters and PhD students in practical lab work
Research summary
Brain imaging, Preclinical PET, Neuroscience
- Shaw RC, Morgan TE, McErlain H, Alcaide-Corral CJ, Waldman AD, Soloviev D, Lewis DY, Sutherland A, Tavares AA. Assessment of a 6-arylaminobenzamide lead derivative as a potential core scaffold for S1P5 positron emission tomography radiotracer development. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 2025 Mar 1;119:118057
- Morgan TE, Grant EK, Shaw RC, Waddell LJ, Henry MC, McErlain H, Alcaide-Corral CJ, Pimlott SL, Tavares AA, Sutherland A. Synthesis and evaluation of 6-arylaminobenzamides as positron emission tomography imaging ligands for the sphingosine-1-phosphate-5 receptor. RSC Medicinal Chemistry. 2025.
- Shaw RC, Tamagnan GD, Tavares AA. Rapidly (and Successfully) Translating Novel Brain Radiotracers From Animal Research Into Clinical Use. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2020 Oct 1;14:871.
- Drozdowska BA, Elliott E, Taylor-Rowan M, Shaw RC, Cuthbertson G, Langhorne P, Quinn TJ. Cardiovascular risk factors indirectly affect acute post-stroke cognition through stroke severity and prior cognitive impairment: a moderated mediation analysis. Alzheimer's research & therapy. 2020
- Tieges Z, Stott DJ, Shaw R, Tang E, Rutter LM, Nouzova E, Duncan N, Clarke C, Weir CJ, Assi V, Ensor H. A smartphone-based test for the assessment of attention deficits in delirium: A case-control diagnostic test accuracy study in older hospitalised patients. PloS one. 2020 Jan 24;15(1):e0227471.
- Shaw RC, Walker G, Elliott E, Quinn TJ. Occurrence rate of delirium in acute stroke settings: systematic review and meta-analysis. Stroke. 2019 Nov;50(11):3028-36.
- Shaw R, Drozdowska B, Taylor-Rowan M, Elliott E, Cuthbertson G, Stott DJ, Quinn TJ. Delirium in an acute stroke setting, occurrence, and risk factors. Stroke. 2019 Nov;50(11):3265-8.
- Elliott E, Drozdowska BA, Taylor-Rowan M, Shaw RC, Cuthbertson G, Quinn TJ. Who Is Classified as Untestable on Brief Cognitive Screens in an Acute Stroke Setting?. Diagnostics. 2019 Sep;9(3):95.
- Taylor-Rowan, M., Cuthbertson, G., Keir, R., Shaw, R., Drozdowska, B., Elliott, E., Stott, D. and Quinn, T.J., 2019. The prevalence of frailty among acute stroke patients, and evaluation of method of assessment. Clinical rehabilitation, p.0269215519841417.
- Taylor-Rowan, M., Keir, R., Cuthbertson, G., Shaw, R., Drozdowska, B., Elliott, E., Evans, J., Stott, D. and Quinn, T.J., 2019. Pre-Stroke Frailty Is Independently Associated With Post-Stroke Cognition: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, pp.1-6.
- Rutter, L.M., Nouzova, E., Stott, D.J., Weir, C.J., Assi, V., Barnett, J.H., Clarke, C., Duncan, N., Evans, J., Green, S. and Hendry, K., 2018. Diagnostic test accuracy of a novel smartphone application for the assessment of attention deficits in delirium in older hospitalised patients: a prospective cohort study protocol. BMC geriatrics, 18(1), p.217.
- Quinn, T.J., Livingstone, I., Weir, A., Shaw, R., Breckenridge, A., McAlpine, C. and Tarbert, C.M., 2018. Accuracy and Feasibility of an android-Based Digital assessment Tool for Post Stroke Visual Disorders—The StrokeVision app. Frontiers in neurology, 9, p.146.