Former Fellows

Fellow 2013-2018

Research Interests
Decoding gene regulatory circuits controlling multipotency of neural crest

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Elected member of the Institute, 2018

Fellow 2014-2019

Research Interests
Mechanisms of aneuploidy in human oocytes

Other Information
EMBO Young Investigator Award, 2013
Biochemical Society Early Career Award, Cells, 2014
ERC starting grant (ChromOocyte), 2014
EMBL Alumni John Kendrew Young Scientist Award, 2015
Binder Innovation Award, 2016
Moved to Max Planck Institute, Germany, 2016
EMBO member, 2016
EMBO Gold Medal, 2018
Member of Leopoldina (German National Academy of Sciences), 2019
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis, German Research Foundation, 2019
Colworth Medal, Biochemical Society, 2019
Elected a member of the Institute, 2019
Honorary Professor at University of Göttingen, 2023

Fellow 1999-2004

Research Interests
Structural enzymology with specific attention to protein-based electron transfer reactions, hydrogen ion tunnelling, relationship between protein structures and function and applications of redox enzymes.

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Benefactors’ Research Scholarship, St John’s College, Cambridge, 1985-1988
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2020
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship, 1988-1991
Henry Humphreys Research Prize, St John’s College, Cambridge, 1989
St John’s College Research Fellowship, Cambridge, 1989-1992
Royal Society University Research Fellowship, 1991-1999
Fellowship and Director of Studies, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1992-1995
Colworth Medal, Biochemical Society, 1999
Promoted to Professor of Biochemistry from 1.10.99
Lister Institute Research Professorship, 1999-2004
Appointed to Advisory Board of the MRC, October, 1999 and to the Biochemistry & Cell Biology Committee of BBSRC, May, 2000
Charmian Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003
Awarded an ScD by the University of Cambridge, 2003
Moved to University of Manchester, 2005
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2005
Professor of Molecular Enzymology, 2005 – present
BBSRC Professional Research Fellow, 2006-2011
Assoc. Dean Research (FLS), University of Manchester, 2008 – present
Rita and John Carnforth Prize, RSC, 2009
Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, 2009
Director, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, 2010
Director Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, 2010-2019
Director Synthetic Biology Research Centre, 2014
Director UK Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub, 2019
Elected Fellow Royal Society, 2020

Research Interests

Biomarkers of materno-fetal health: role of placental endocrine mediators in normal and obese pregnancies

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Awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize, 2020

Fellow 1997-2002

Research Interests
Transcriptional control of gene expression with a focus on transcription factors and co-activators/co-repressors, regulation by cellular signalling pathways including phosphorylation and sumoylation. Recent work focusses on the gene regulatory networks in cancer, chiefly in oesophageal adenocarcinoma.

Other Information
Appointed Reader from 1.8.98
Transferred fellowship to the University of Manchester from 1.1.99
Awarded the BACR (British Association for Cancer Research)/AstraZeneca “Young Scientist Award” 2000 and the Biochemical Society Colworth Medal, 2001
Awarded the Tenovus Medal 2002
Appointed Head of Division of Gene Regulation and Bioinformatics 1.4.02
Promoted to Professor of Molecular Biology 1.6.02
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2003
Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, 2014
Promoted to Associate Dean for Research Technology, 2019

Fellow 1988-1992

Research Interests
Virology, particularly vaccinia virus, the smallpox vaccine, and how it enters and leaves cells and interferes with the innate immune system.

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Jenner Fellow of the Lister Institute, 1988
Reader in Bacteriology, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, 1989
Resigned Lister Institute Fellowship 30.6.1989, non-stipendiary Fellowship awarded 1.7.89 – 30.6.1992
Fleming Award from the Society for General Microbiology, 1992
Professor of Virology, University of Oxford, 1996
Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, 2000
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2000
Wellcome Trust Principal Fellowship, 2000-2019
Professor of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, 2000-11
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of General Virology, 2003-2008
Fellow of the Royal Society, 2003
Lister Institute Governing Body, 2003-2013
Chairman, WHO Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research, 2004-present
MRC Infection and Immunity Board, 2004-2009
Wilhelm Feldberg Foundation Prize for Anglo-German Friendship in biological and medical science
Chairman, Virology Division, International Union of Microbiological Societies, 2005-2018
Teaching Excellence Award, Imperial College London, 2008
Founding Member of European Academy of Microbiologists (EAM), 2009
Corresponding Member of the Gesellschaft für Virologie (GfV), 2010
Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, 2011-present
Professorial Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 2011-present
Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), 2011
President, International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS), 2011-2014
Wellcome Trust Expert Review Group, Member 2011-2014
Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, Friedrich-Loeffler Institute, German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection 2015-19
American Society for Microbiology – GlaxoSmithKline, International Member of the Year Award, 2012
Member, Biomedical Panel of the Research Grant Committee of Hong Kong, 2012-2018
Member, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 2015-
Member, Scientific Advisory Board Centre of Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany
Awarded Loeffler Prize Lecture by Friedrich-Loeffler Institute/Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Germany, 2016
Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture 2018, the Microbiology Society
Awarded Leeuwenhoek Medal and Prize Lecture Royal Society, 2019

Fellow 2007-2012

Research Interests
Control of infection and autoimmunity by an inhibitory Fc receptor FcγR11b

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Khoo Oon Teik Professor of Nephrology, National University of Singapore, 2007
Promoted to Professor of Medicine, 2009 and Head of Department of Medicine, Cambridge, 2010
Chairman, European Vasculitis Genetics Consortium and Director of FOCIS Int Center of Excellence, 2011
Elected a member of the Institute, 2013

Fellow 1990-1994

Research Interests
Structural studies of the serpin family of proteins.

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Granted 1 year’s leave of absence from 1.3.91 for crystallography training, Dept of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Alberta, Canada
Renewed fellowship 1.4.93; fellowship now to end 30.9.97
Resigned fellowship 1.12.94 to take up research in the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Granted, exceptionally, 6 months’ fellowship from 1.10.95 to 31.3.96 to complete research project at Cambridge
Professor’s Prize in Clinical Biochemistry, 1966
Awarded a Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellowship from 1.10.98 in the Department of Haematology, School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2000

Fellow 2009-2014

Research Interests
Investigating the role of the RIDDLE syndrome gene in promoting repair of DNA damage

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Awarded CR-UK Senior Fellowship, 2011-2017
Elected a member of the Institute 2015
Promoted to Professor of Cancer Genetics, 2015
Joseph Chamberlain Award for Scientific Advancement, 2017
CR-UK Programme Grant, 2017-2022

Fellow 1993-1998

Research Interests
Protein targeting and organelle biogenesis in yeasts.  Translocation across membranes.  Functional genomics and yeast proteome.  Molecular chaperones.

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Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow
Appointed Reader in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Manchester from 1.10.94
Society for General Microbiology Fleming Award, 1997
Awarded the 1998 Balfour Prize by the Genetical Society
Appointed to a Personal Chair in Genetics from 1.8.98
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1999
Representative of the University of Manchester 1.2.01
Education Dean, School of Biological Sciences, 2002
Associate Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, 2004-2007
Vice President, University of Manchester, 2007-2011
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Curtin University, Australia, 2011-2014
President and Vice Chancellor, Flinders University, Australia, 2015

Fellow 2014 – 2019

Research Interests
Mechanisms of microtubule organisation and intracellular transport

Other Information
Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, 2016
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2018
Promoted to Professor, 2020
Wellcome Investigator award, 2022

Fellow 1998-2003

Research Interests
Understanding how during animal development cells become polarized in developing tissues or organs in a co-ordinated fashion.  Using the cuticle of the fruit fly, Drosophila, as the model system and a variety of genetic and cell biological approaches.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow
Promoted to Reader from 1.10.01
Awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship from 2003
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2004
Promotion to Professor of Developmental Genetics, 2005
Awarded Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship, 2008
Awarded Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship, 2013
Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship in 2018