DrJayanta Banerjee

Jay Banerjee is a Neonatal consultant at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a Hon Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, ICL. He leads neonatal haemodynamics and Necrotising enterocolitis research, has got significant interest in family integrated care research in neonatology and is part of the perinatology research group at the IRDB. He has recently been awarded a Clinical Academic Research Partnership (CARP) grant by the MRC/UKRI to work on phenotypical profiling of gut health in preterm infants.

His Non-invasive continuous cardiac output monitoring (NICCOM) study - using Regional Impedance Cardiography has demonstrated differential cardiac output patterns in various gestational age groups. He has further followed up this study to develop prediction modelling tools in predicting cardiac output of babies prior to clinical cardiovascular collapse.

He has completed a Gastric Lipase enhanced NG tube position measurement (GLEN) study - this was an UK NIHR Innovations grant funded study to measure if gastric lipase enhanced nasogastric tube length measurement improves the accuracy of the position in neonates. This study has demonstrated that gastric lipase enhanced naso/orogastric tube has higher sensitivity and specificity of correct positioning of the tube.

Current research projects led by Jay Banerjee:

The Bioimpedence and Arterial function Monitoring in Infants and children (BAMBI) study - this study is measuring arterial function in neonates and comparing the arterial function of small for gestational age, appropriately grown and grown restricted infants. The study is funded by Imperial Health Charity and Imperial Biomedical Research Centre.

Non-invasive glucose, electrolytes and lactate (NIGEL) study is a collaborative research with Prof Martyn Boutelle at the Dept of Bioengineering at ICL, funded through an Imperial Confidence in Concept (ICiC MRC) grant. This study is developing a device which can measure glucose, lactate and electrolytes non-invasively from thermoneutral sweat in preterm and term neonates.

Super-resolution ultrasound scan of newborn brain (SERENE Brain) study is a collaborative study with Prof Mengxing Tang, Dept of Biomedical Imaging at ICL funded by Imperial Health Charity pre-doc fellowship programme, Bukhman Family Foundation and NIHR BRC. This study is using innovative techniques to track neonatal brain microcirculation, using contrast enhanced ultrasound scan (CEUS).

Phenotypical profiling of gut health in preterm infants (NECGUARD) study is funded through the MRC/UKRI CARP grant. This is a regional study to develop phenotypical profiles for babies who develop NEC based on their clinical, biophysical and biological data in real time using machine learning technologies.

Mechanisms affecting gut of preterm infants in enteral feeding trials (MAGPIE-2) study is a NIHR EME funded trial nested within the WHEAT International trial (sponsored and run by the Imperial CTU). The WHEAT international trial is studying if feeding during blood transfusion increases the risk of NEC in very preterm infants. The MAGPIE-2 study is a mechanistic study where gut and cerebral oxygenation (NIRS) will be measured alongwith gut blood flow Dopplers during blood transfusion in the two feeding groups.