Research output per year
Research output per year
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Room 2.607, Stopford Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road
M13 9PL Manchester
United Kingdom
Accepting PhD Students
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Dermatology and Pharmacoepidemiology
Honorary Consultant Dermatologist, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist
Academic Programme Lead for Dermatology, Integrated Clinical Academic Training, University of Manchester
Group Leader, Dermatology and Pharmacoepidemiology Research Group
Dr Zenas Yiu is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Dermatology and Pharmacoepidemiology and MRC Clinician Scientist.
His research interests lie in Pharmacoepidemiology and Evidence-Based Dermatology, and he takes a particular interest in the evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of novel therapeutics for chronic inflammatory skin conditions. He leads a research group on Dermato-epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology studies based at the Centre for Dermatology Research, Manchester.
In 2015, he was awarded an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship to pursue his doctorate degree investigating the risk of serious infection in patients with psoriasis on biologic therapies at the University of Manchester. He was awarded the Royal Society of Medicine Dermatology Trainee Research Prize in 2018, and the Royal College of Physicians Turner-Warwick Lectureship for the North West region in 2019 for his doctorate research. He was awarded an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship in 2024 to conduct research into better ways of integrating trials and observational studies in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.
He currently serves as Academic Programme Lead for Dermatology and co-lead for Clinical Therapeutics, Pharmacology and Industry Theme for the Integrated Clinical Academic Training Programme in Manchester. He is also the capacity-building lead for the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Council Dermatology theme.
He is a member of the guideline panel for the British Association of Dermatologists’ (BAD) guidelines for biological therapy for Psoriasis and currently chairs the BAD guideline for methotrexate. He sits on the steering committee for three projects by the BAD on psoriasis (BADBIR), keratinocyte cancer (UKKCC), and alopecia areata (UK-GRASS) as well as on the BAD research subcommittee. He is a member on the Grants Advisory Committee for the British Skin Foundation Large Grants. He is the co-deputy chair for the UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network. Internationally, he sits on the steering committee for the European Dermato-Epidemiology Network. He serves as an editor for Cochrane Skin. In addition, he serves as a committee member for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Technology Appraisal Committee D to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of medicines for the NHS.
Academic Foundation Doctor in Dermatology 2009-2011
NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Dermatology 2012-2015
NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow in Dermatology 2015-2018
NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Dermatology 2019-2022
Drug safety
Treatment effectiveness
Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
Data science in dermatology
Guideline methodology
UoM: Prof Christopher Griffiths, Prof Richard Warren, Prof Darren Ashcroft, Dr Mark Lunt, Dr Steven Zhao, Dr John Bowes
External: Prof Carsten Flohr, Dr Aaron Drucker, Prof Ching Chi Chi, (evidence-based medicine and atopic dermatitis), Dr Ignacio Garcia-Doval, Prof Emilie Sbidian (dermato-epidemiology), Dr Zoe Venables, Dr Sonia Gran (skin cancer epidemiology), BADBIR steering committee (psoriasis pharmaco-epidemiology)
Royal College of Physicians
European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
British Association of Dermatologists
International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
American Academy of Dermatology
Bachelor of Science, Anatomical Sciences (BSc), University of Manchester
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB), University of Manchester
Master of Science, Epidemiology (MSc), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP)
Doctor of Philosophy, Medicine (PhD), University of Manchester
Dermatology and Pharmacoepidemiology Research Group
PhD students: Heber Bright, John Tetteh
Postdoctoral Research Associates: Duc Binh Phan, Stella Kim
Project Manager: Georgia Reeves
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Co-Deputy Chair for UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network
27 Nov 2023 → …
Research subcommittee member, British Association of Dermatologists
21 Nov 2023 → …
European Dermato-Epidemiology Network steering committee member
1 Nov 2023 → …
Technology Appraisal Committee D member, National Institute For Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE)
1 Nov 2023 → …
Editor, Cochrane Skin
1 Apr 2023 → …
Steering committee member, UK Keratinocyte Cancer Collaborative
1 Jul 2022 → …
Steering committee member, British Association of Dermatologists Biologics Register Ltd
5 Jul 2021 → …
Associate Editor for Evidence-based Dermatology section, British Journal of Dermatology
1 Aug 2017 → 17 Jan 2025
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Yiu, Z. (PI), Ashcroft, D. (CoI), Griffiths, C. (CoI) & Warren, R. (CoI)
1/10/15 → 30/09/18
Project: Research
Yiu, Z. (PI)
19/08/24 → 18/08/29
Project: Research
Yiu, Z. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Yiu, Z. (Recipient), 1 Oct 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Yiu, Z. (Recipient), 14 Mar 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Yiu, Z. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Hyrich, K. (Participant), Bruce, I. (Participant), Griffiths, C. (Participant), Warren, R. (Participant), Symmons, D. (Participant), Ashcroft, D. (Participant), Dixon, W. (Participant), Lunt, M. (Participant), Yiu, Z. (Participant) & Mercer, L. (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing
Chen, T.-C. (Creator), Wang , T.-C. (Contributor), Yiu, Z. (Contributor), Lee, M.-S. (Contributor), Chen, L.-C. (Contributor), Chan, K. A. (Contributor), Griffiths, C. (Contributor) & Ashcroft, D. (Contributor), Mendeley Data, 6 Dec 2022
DOI: 10.17632/y33j4dpyyc.1, https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/y33j4dpyyc
Dataset
Student thesis: Phd