Former Fellows

Fellow 2008-2013

Research Interests
Endothelial guidance in vascular patterning

Other Information
Tenured Senior Group Leader, LRI, 2009
Awarded Walther Fleming Medal of the German Society for Cell Biology, 2009
Elected a member of the Institute 2014
Moved to Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, 2014
Professor for Experimental Cardiovascular Research, Charité, Berlin
DZHK Professor (German Center for Cardiovascular Research) and BIH Professor (Berlin Institute of Health)
Spokesperson MDC Integrative Biomedicine and Head of Integrative Vascular Biology, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin

Fellow 2001-2006

Research Interests
Modulation of fetal cardiovascular function by reversible adverse intrauterine conditions: consequences for later life.

Other Information
Granted permission to spend the 9 months from 1.1.02 to 30.9.02 in Bolivia and Chile
Awarded Hon Professorship University of Chile, 2002
Promoted to Reader in Developmental Cardiovascular Physiology & Medicine
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2007
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Netherlands Wim Schellekens Prize lecture
Inaugural Lang-Pardi Italy Foundation Award
Awarded personal chair, 2011
Section Editor, Pediatric Research, 2011
President’s Presenter Award. The Society for Reproductive Investigation 58th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 2011
President’s Presenter Award. The Society for Reproductive Investigation 59th Annual Meeting,
San Diego, USA, 2012
The Giorgio Pardi Foundation President’s Presenter’s Awards. The Society for Reproductive Investigation 59th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 2012
Gonville & Caius 1958 Endowed Lectureship in Medicine, 2012
The Giorgio Pardi Foundation President’s Presenter’s Awards. The Society for Reproductive Investigation 60th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 2013
Associate Editor, Journal of Gynecology, Reproduction and Perinatology, 2013
Elected President of the Fetal & Neonatal Physiological Society, 2014
Reviewing Editor, The Journal of Physiology, 2014
Section Editor, Journal of Developmental Origins of Health & Disease, 2014
Associate Editor, American Journal of Physiology (Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology), 2014
President’s Presenter Award. The Society for Reproductive Investigation 62nd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2015
Thomas McDonald Award of The Society for Reproductive Investigation 62nd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2015
David Barker Memorial Prize Lecture, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2015.
Sir Peter Tizard Prize Lecture, Neonatal Society, Winchester, UK, 2015
Honorary Professor, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China, 2015
ScD Degree from the University of Cambridge, 2016
Nick Hales Medal from the International Society of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 2017
FRCOG awarded from the Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology in recognition of scientific work and its translational impact to improve the health and wellbeing of pregnant women and their unborn children, 2017
Elected to Latin American Academy of Sciences, 2018

Research Interests
How cells adapt to centrosome and microtubule alterations and how these in turn impact cell physiology and pathology to develop better ways to combat cancer

Other Information
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2024
Award a CRUK Programme Foundation Award in 2021

Fellow 1992-1998

Research Interests
Regulation of glucose transport in insulin-sensitive tissues in health and disease. Single molecule imaging of plasma membrane proteins. Cellular and Subcellular analysis of metabolic processes.

Other Information
Appointed Senior Lecturer retrospectively from l.7.92
Promoted to Reader in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from l.10.95
Fellowship extended by one year to 30.9.98
Awarded a Personal Chair in Membrane Biology, 1997
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1999
Deputy Head of Biochemistry and Microbiology Division 1998-2004
Wellcome Research Leave Fellowship, 2004-2007
Professor Cell Biology, 2005 – 2019
Associate Dean, Postgraduate Research, 2013-2016
Professor, University of Strathclyde, 2019 – present
Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, elected 2025

Fellow 2006-2011

Research Interests
Cellular endocrinology of the gut-brain-pancreatic axis, including the involvement of gut hormones in human health and disease and the physiology underlying GLP-1 based weight loss drugs

Other Information
Elected a member of the Institute, 2012
Professor of Endocrine Physiology (University of Cambridge), 2012
Elected as Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2015
Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, 2015

Research Interests
Molecular mechanisms of Wnt/beta-catenin signalling, ADP-ribosylation and telomere maintenance

Other Information
Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, 2019
Cancer Research UK Programme Foundation Award, 2019
Deputy Head of the Division of Structural Biology, September 2019
Reader in Structural Biology and Cell Signalling, the Institute of Cancer Research, October 2019.
Professor of Structural Biology and Cell Signalling, 2022
Deputy Head, Division of Structural Biology, 2019
Deputy Dean (Biomedical Sciences), 2024
Member of The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, 2023