Former Fellows

Fellow 2008-2013

Area of Current 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

Area of Current 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.

Fellow 1992-1998

Area of Current 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 2006-2011

Area of Current Research Interests
Secretion of incretin hormones from the mouse intestine

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.