Dr Venetia Bigley is a Consultant Haematologist specialising in Haematopoietic  stem cell transplant, adult primary immunodeficiency, histiocytoses, dendritic cell tumours.

Dr Bigley works in the Northern Centre for Bone Marrow Transplantation and holds a Wellcome Intermediate Fellowship (2013-2018) for research. She completed a degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge before turning to medicine, studying again in Cambridge and at University College London.  Dr Bigly undertook her specialist haematology training in Newcastle and was appointed as a Consultant in 2011.

In the research laboratory she studies how dendritic cells, important regulators of the immune system, are formed from the bone marrow and how this can go wrong in bone marrow diseases or as a result of faulty genes. Previous research has been funded by BrightRed, The George Walker Trust, the British Society for Haematology and the Medical Research Council.