Former Fellows

Fellow 2013-2018

Area of Current Research Interests
Decoding gene regulatory circuits controlling multipotency of neural crest

Other Information
Elected member of the Institute, 2018.

Fellow 2014-2019

Area of Current 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.

Fellow 1999-2004

Area of Current 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.

Other Information
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.

Title of Research Project

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

Other Information

Awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize, 2020

Fellow 1997-2002

Area of Current 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.

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

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

Other Information
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

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

Other Information
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

Area of Current Research Interests
Structural studies of the serpin family of proteins.

Other Information
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

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

Other Information
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

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

Other Information
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

Area of Current Research Interests
Microtubule-actin crosstalk in cell migration

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

Fellow 1998-2003

Area of Current 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.