Nurturing the future leaders in biomedical research
Nurturing the future leaders in biomedical research
Fellow 1988-1990 Area of Current Research Interests Signalling pathways in cancer and normal cells; insulin signalling and its defects in type II diabetes; mechanisms of insulin action and of glucose uptake and resistance; insulin secretion and its control. Mitochondrial metabolism,…
Fellow 2010-2016 Area of Current Research Interests The molecular basis of latency and dissemination during cryptococcosis Other Information Appointed Professor of Infectious Diseases, 2014. Awarded Royal Society Research Merit Award, 2015. Extended Fellowship to 30 September 2016. Elected to membership…
Fellow 2002-2007 Area of Current Research Interests Maintenance of epigenetic state, with focus on Spatial organisation of DNA replication, with focus on expression and function of CIZ1 protein variants. Biomarker development based on CIZ1 variant expression in lung cancers. Other…
Fellow 1997-2002 Area of Current Research Interests Regulation of cell migration by ephrin mediated contact repulsion. Understanding how bi-directional signalling through Eph receptors and their ephrin ligands control the actin cytoskeleton and cell adhesion. Other Information Appointed Group Leader, MRC…
Fellow 1999-2003 Area of Current Research Interests We study the molecular mechanisms of protein sorting in mammalian cells and the fundamental role it plays in cell, tissue and organism-level function. Specifically, our mechanistic dissection of protein sorting within the endosomal…
Fellow 2000-2002 Area of Current Research Interests Post-transcriptional regulation during neural stem cell development and synaptic plasticity in Drosophila: its function in health and disease. Other Information Resigned fellowship on the award of a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship 1.7.02.…
Title of Research Project Protein-level knockdown as a new frontier for biological and biomedical sciences
Fellow 2015-2021 Area of Current Research Interests Bacterial autophagy and the cytoskeleton in host defence Other Information Transferred to LSHTM, June 2018. Promoted to Professor, 2018. Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, 2012. Wellcome Beit Research Fellow, 2012. Wellcome Trust…
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
Title of Research Project Receptor tyrosine phosphatase signalling mechanisms in health and disease.