George Ashdown

George Ashdown is a Research Fellow at the School of Biosciences, part of the College of Health and Life Sciences at Aston University. He leads a research program focusing on host-pathogen interactions, particularly targeting intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis using advanced imaging and 'omics techniques. His work integrates super-resolution microscopy with machine learning to study drug delivery systems and disease biomarkers.

He holds a PhD from King's College London (2017) on T cell immunological synapse dynamics and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh (2011) in Quantitative Cell and Molecular Imaging. His research has spanned malaria parasite lifecycle analysis using high-throughput imaging and AI-driven drug response studies.

Ashdown's expertise spans lattice light-sheet microscopy, AI applications in biological imaging, and the development of novel drug delivery systems. He actively supervises PhD projects in host-pathogen interactions and lipid-based therapies.

His contributions include pioneering methods to quantify molecular dynamics in T cells and advancing automated malaria diagnostics using convolutional neural networks. Current projects emphasize leveraging spatiotemporal data from cutting-edge microscopy for clinical translation.

Research outputs highlight interdisciplinary approaches combining microscopy innovation with computational biology. He collaborates extensively on malaria and tuberculosis projects, contributing to both fundamental understanding and applied therapeutic development.