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Jemma Kerns

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Jemma Kerns, SFHEA

Dr

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5213-8392

  • Furness Building

    LA1 4YG Lancaster

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Please contact me if you are interested in undertaking a PhD in any of the following:
1) Raman spectroscopy and bone biology
2) Does non-invasive detection of mineralisation in bone offer an early diagnostic for bone disease?
3) Predicting and preventing osteoporosis.

20092026

Research activity per year

Personal profile

SUMMARY of research interests (100 words)

My main area of interest is in developing spectroscopic techniques (Raman and IR) for healthcare applications, specifically early diagnosis, particularly relating to bone conditions including osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and osteogenesis imperfecta. This includes the continued development of robust computational methodologies for spectral processing and analysis. I am particularly interested in advancing and combining these techniques to translate them into a clinical setting for the high-throughput diagnosis of medical conditions non-invasively in vivo.

As Director of Research for Lancaster Medical School, I aim to champion, advocate and support all of the amazing research we do.

Career Details

Senior Lecturer since August 2018.

 

 

Keywords

  • Biomedical and life sciences
  • Cancer biology
  • Science, technology and medicine
  • Bone biology
  • bone diseases

User-defined keywords

  • Raman spectroscopy
  • Infrared spectroscopy
  • spatially offset Raman spectroscopy
  • bone biology
  • bone disease
  • osteoarthritis
  • osteoporosis
  • osteogenesis imperfecta

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  • Theo Hornsey

    Kerns, J. (Host)

    1/02/2026 → 1/01/2028

    Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting a Student (PhD)

  • Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (External organisation)

    Kerns, J. (Reviewer )

    2026 → …

    Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee

  • Life After Death

    Kerns, J. (Contributor), Taylor, A. (Contributor) & Yin, N.-H. (Contributor)

    12/12/2025 → 25/09/2026

    Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

  • UK Society for Biomaterials Conference 2025

    Hardy, J. (Chair), Kerns, J. (Member of programme committee), Mort, R. (Member of programme committee), Douglas, T. (Member of programme committee), Robinson, B. (Member of programme committee), Singh, N. (Member of programme committee), Cartmell, S. (Keynote/plenary speaker), Al-Jawad, M. (Keynote/plenary speaker), Senior, J. (Keynote/plenary speaker), Kauscher Pinto, U. (Keynote/plenary speaker), Smith, P. (Keynote/plenary speaker), Beale, A. (Keynote/plenary speaker), Borbor-Sawyer, S. (Speaker), Chakrabarty, S. (Speaker), Davoodi, P. (Speaker), Desimone, M. (Speaker), Giorgi, F. (Speaker), Gul, R. (Speaker), Khan, F. (Participant), Halacheva, S. (Speaker), Hall, S. (Speaker), Khutoryanskiy, V. (Speaker), Killick, R. (Speaker), Kim, Y.-H. (Speaker), Mehrban, N. (Invited speaker), Mele, E. (Speaker), Pancholi, K. (Speaker), Rahman, R. (Speaker), Ramachandra Kurup Sasikala, A. (Speaker), Reddy, S. (Invited speaker), Rimmer, S. (Speaker), Robinson, T. (Speaker), Salmeron-Sanchez, M. (Invited speaker), Day, G. (Speaker), Baiocco, D. (Speaker), Berri, N. (Speaker), Chaves Filho, G. (Speaker), Citro, V. (Speaker), Fruleux, T. (Speaker), Schofield, Z. (Speaker), Smith, I. (Speaker), Taylor, C. (Speaker), Thareja, A. (Speaker), Villapun, V. (Speaker), Alrwaili, A. (Speaker), Anbazhagan, B. (Speaker), Olabisi Ashimi, M. (Speaker), Baines, D. (Speaker), Delle Fave, F. (Speaker), Desai, N. (Speaker), Fletcher, J. (Speaker), Mete Gunaydin, H. (Speaker), Gunen, M. (Speaker), Hasson, F. (Speaker), Heim, M. (Speaker), Hollett, J. (Speaker), Hood, R. (Speaker), Johnson, L. (Speaker), Kelly, N. (Speaker), Kiziloz, S. (Speaker), Lorenzo-Lopez, M. (Speaker), Ortega Asencio, I. (Speaker), McCallion, A. (Speaker), McIlhatton, E. (Speaker), McMullan, R. (Speaker), Mikalef, G. (Speaker), Morgan, A. (Speaker), O'Garra, C. (Speaker), Proctor, C. (Speaker), Rees, S. (Speaker), Ritchie, G. (Speaker), Sall, A. (Speaker), Santos, P. (Speaker), Schleyer, G. (Speaker), Slavova, N. (Speaker), Su, Z. (Speaker), Tezsezen, E. (Speaker), Walker, I. (Speaker), Weber, L. (Speaker), Weightman, J. (Speaker), Alshammari, F. (Presenter), Barner, J. (Presenter), Bhalla, M. (Presenter), Kaliyeva, A. (Presenter), Khacharat, L. (Presenter), Lad, N. (Presenter), Marshall, L. (Presenter), Myngbay, A. (Presenter), Okesola, B. (Presenter), Pomfret, L. (Presenter), Pope, V. (Presenter), Ramírez Saynes, B. (Presenter), Rit, T. (Speaker), Rust, S. (Presenter), Zhang, Z. (Presenter), Walker, D. (Member of programme committee), Contessi Negrini , N. (Advisor), Barker Benavides, C. (Contributor), Dubey, G. (Presenter), Duong, L. (Contributor), Robertshaw, S. (Contributor), Morton, K. (Contributor), Day, R. (Contributor), Talboys, F. (Contributor), Smith, D. (Contributor), Gilmore, M. (Advisor), Xu, E. (Contributor), Zhu, J. (Contributor), Zastrow, M. (Contributor), Trotter, P. (Contributor), Heasman, P. (Keynote/plenary speaker), Armstrong, J. (Speaker), Dyer, P. (Invited speaker), Rehman, I. (Participant), Barton, D. (Contributor), Tailor, J. (Participant), Mahon, N. (Participant), Anderson, A. (Participant), Fyfe, A. (Participant), Lonergan, A. (Participant), Rennie, A. (Contributor), Gibson, I. (Contributor), Galeb, H. (Participant), Boyd, A. (Speaker), McFerran, A. (Participant), Miller, C. (Participant), Aveyard, J. (Participant), Bosworth, L. (Participant), Vaidya, K. (Participant), Shepherd, J. (Speaker), Ward, J. (Participant), Domingos, M. (Participant), Wadge, M. (Participant), Roach, P. (Participant), D'Sa, R. (Participant), Yang, Y. (Participant), Heravi Shargh, V. (Participant), Kearns, V. (Participant), Zeugolis, D. (Contributor), Zhang, S. (Contributor), Mayer, C. (Contributor), Bayindir-Buchhalter, I. (Contributor), Jones, J. (Advisor), Pegg, E. (Advisor), Celiz, A. (Advisor), Scotchford, C. (Advisor), Cox, S. (Contributor) & Jackson, P. (Advisor)

    30/06/2025 → 2/07/2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

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  • Biomaterials and Biosystems (Journal)

    Hardy, J. (Guest editor), Kerns, J. (Guest editor), Douglas, T. (Guest editor), Rehman, I. U. (Guest editor) & Shepherd, J. (Guest editor)

    8/04/2025 → 31/12/2025

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity

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