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Professor Neil McHugh graduated from Otago University Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand, and completed physician training before specialising in the subspecialty of rheumatology. He has undertaken research fellowships at the Walter and Eliza Hall in Melbourne, Australia (1985), Yale University Medical School, USA (1990–1991), and the National Heart and Lung Institute, UK (2002–2004).
Professor McHugh has been a Consultant Rheumatologist at the RNHRD since 1991, and Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology at the University of Bath since 2013. His current interests include the serology of idiopathic inflammatory myositis, scleroderma, lupus and juvenile idiopathic arthritis. His laboratory group offers specialist autoimmune serology at the University of Bath, leads on a major European study of adult and juvenile idiopathic myositis, and has identified a number of novel diagnostic autoantibody biomarkers. Professor McHugh also leads a programme of work related to psoriatic disease, including a National Institute for Health Research programme grant related to the early detection and optimisation of outcome measures in psoriatic arthritis. He has led on successive British Society for Rheumatology guidelines for biologics in psoriatic arthritis, and has been involved in National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and other international guidelines for psoriatic disease.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Total Burden of Long Term Psoriasis - TULiPS
McHugh, N. (PI), Smith, T. (CoI), Tillett, W. (CoI) & Ehrhardt, B. (Researcher)
National Institute for Health Research
1/05/24 → 31/07/25
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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Inter-centre variation in MSA testing
Tansley, S. (PI), McHugh, N. (CoI) & Bowler, E. (Researcher)
2/01/23 → 3/07/25
Project: Other
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Novel biomarkers in Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Tansley, S. (PI) & McHugh, N. (CoI)
1/01/22 → 31/03/25
Project: Other
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Validity of the Myositis Muscle Dysfunction Scale (MMDS) in adult patients with Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis
McGrogan, A. (CoI), Lange, E. (PI) & McHugh, N. (CoI)
Project: UK charity
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The total burden of psoriasis
McHugh, N. (PI) & Tillett, W. (CoI)
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
1/05/23 → 30/04/24
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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Frequency, mutual exclusivity and clinical associations of myositis autoantibodies in a combined European cohort of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy patients
UKMyonet Contributors, 31 Jul 2019, In: Journal of Autoimmunity. 101, p. 48-55 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Autoantibodies in myositis
McHugh, N. J. & Tansley, S. L., 1 May 2018, In: Nature reviews. Rheumatology. 14, 5, p. 290-302 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Risk of uveitis and inflammatory bowel disease in people with psoriatic arthritis: a population based cohort study
Charlton, R., Green, A., Shaddick, G., Snowball, J., Nightingale, A., Tillett, W., Smith, C. & McHugh, N., 12 Jan 2018, In: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 77, 2, p. 277-280 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Autoantibodies in juvenile-onset myositis: Their diagnostic value and associated clinical phenotype in a large UK cohort
on behalf of the Juvenile Dermatomyositis Research Group, 30 Nov 2017, In: Journal of Autoimmunity. 84, p. 55-64 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Comparison of Three Immunoassays for the Detection of Myositis Specific Antibodies
Mahler, M., Betteridge, Z., Bentow, C., Richards, M., Seaman, A., Chinoy, H. & McHugh, N., 30 Apr 2019, In: Frontiers in Immunology. 10, p. 1-5 5 p., 848.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access69 Citations (SciVal)