Dr Nicholas Fuggle

Nick Fuggle is an Associate Professor at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre (MRC LEC), University of Southampton and an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at University Hospitals Southampton. He completed his PhD, which was funded by a Doctoral Research Fellowship from the Dunhill Medical Trust, under the supervision of Professors Cyrus Cooper and Elaine Dennison. He investigated epigenetic biomarkers of ageing and their ability to predict musculoskeletal phenotypes. He continues his research in musculoskeletal ageing with a focus on the deployment of computer vision on imaging modalities to predict musculoskeletal outcomes.  

He has held a Turing Fellowship at the Alan Turing Institute and is a co-organiser of the Clinical AI Interest Group. He has received numerous national and international awards including the British Society of Rheumatology Young Investigator Award (2022) and the International Osteoporosis Foundation Pierre Meunier Award (2022). He is on the Editorial Board of Osteoporosis International, Calcified Tissues International and Ageing Clinical and Experimental Research. He sits of the board of the European Society for the Clinical and Economic aspect of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders (ESCEO).