Professor Lisa Hill

Professor Lisa Hill is a Translational Neuroscientist in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on brain and eye health, delivering integrated programmes that combine discovery science, experimental medicine and data-driven approaches to improve outcomes in neurological disease and injury.

Her work centres on the role of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative disease in conditions including traumatic brain injury, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration. She has developed patented drug delivery technologies and led the translation of novel therapies designed to protect neural tissue and prevent neurodegenerative disease.

Professor Hill is Deputy Chief Investigator and Biofluid Biomarker Theme Lead for mTBI-PREDICT, a major international programme funded by the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the U.S. Department of War. Her team develops scalable biomarker platforms to detect brain injury earlier and stratify patients at risk of poor outcomes, with a particular focus on military and high-risk populations exposed to repeated or blast-related injury. This includes work on thermal and physiological biomarkers to understand the impact of environmental stressors, such as heat exposure, on brain function and recovery.

Her wider portfolio includes large-scale discovery and experimental medicine studies, the development of mobile, field-deployable technologies to monitor brain health in real-world settings, and leadership within the Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre. Alongside her research, she leads multidisciplinary teams across preclinical discovery, clinical translation, and innovation, and is committed to training the next generation of scientists while driving forward solutions that deliver real-world impact in brain health.

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