Fellow 1987-1993

Research Interests
Epigenetic gene regulation during mammalian development and its deregulation in disease. Particular focus on imprinted genes and their function, mechanisms for gene imprinting, how faults in the mechanisms contribute to disease, and epigenetic reprogramming in early embryos.

Other Information
Promoted to Principal Scientific Officer 1.10.89
Fellowship extended by 1 year to 30.9.93
Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics and Imprinting from 1992
Awarded the 1994 Wellcome Prize in Physiology
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996
Elected to the MRC Scientific Advisory Board, 1997
Head, Programme of Developmental Genetics from 1997
Elected a Member of EMBO, 2003
Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2003
Promoted to Associate Director, Babraham Institute, 2004
Head of Epigenetics & Chromatin Programme,
2008.Appointed Professor of Epigenetics in the Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, 2008
Appointed to the Board of Management, Centre for Tophoblast Research, University of Cambridge, 2008
Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2010
Elected Member of Academia Europaea, 2011
Appointed Associate Faculty, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, 2011
Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, 2011
Founding member of the Sanger Institute/EBI single cell genomics centre, 2013
BBSRC Great British Bioscience Pioneer 2014
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, 2014
2018 Wellcome Investigator
Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher, 2018, 2019
Neuberger Memorial Lecture Hebrew University, 2018
Sammy Lee Memorial Lecture Crick Institute, 2018
Riccardo Cortese Lecture, 2018
ERC advanced grant, 2020
Acting director Babraham Institute, 2020
Appointed permanent Director Babraham Institute 2021
Appointed founding Director Altos Labs Cambridge Institute of Science 2022