Alumni

Gian-Carlo Alghisi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joined in 1996

Left in 1998

Present: Chef de Projet at Alpiq InTec Romandie SA, Switzerland

Burcu Anil Kirmizitas

Research Associate

Joined in 2012

Left in 2017

Present: Principal Medical Writer at M3 EU, Stony Brook University, Oxford, UK 

Ruth Appanah

Research Assistant

Joined in 1999

Left in 2005

Present: Director, Facilities and Technical Operations at Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University, Delta, British Columbia, Canada

Rebecca Berrens

Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow

Joined in 2019

Left in 2022

Present: Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative medicine (IDRM)/Department of Paediatrics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Antonio Biasutto

Research Associate

Joined in 2016

Left in 2019

Present: Senior Scientist at OMass Therapeutics, Oxford, UK

Nick Brideau

Research Associate

Joined in 2010

Left in 2015

Present: Director, Molecular Biology at  Debut Biotechnology, San Diego, USA 

Emma Carter

Research Assistant

Joined in 2013

Left in 2023

Present: 


Tim Carter

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joined in 2000

Left in 2003

Present: COO Purple Surgical, London, UK

Andrea Cerase

Research Associate

Joined in 2006

Left in 2013

Present: Lecturer In genomics and Epigenetics, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Sarah Cooper

Research Associate

Joined in 2008

Left in 2017

Present: Senior Staff Scientist at the Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK

Katia Delaval

Research Associate

Joined in 2006

Left in 2010

Present: Journalist in Health and Safety at Information et Communication multimédia à l'INRS Paris, France

Sarah Duthie (Lang)

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joined in 1994

Left in 2000

Present: Freelance Editor, Geneva, Switzerland

Sarah Elderkin

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joined in 2004

Left in 2008

Present: Senior Research Scientist at the Babraham Institute , Cambridge, UK

Aleksandra Erilova (Shatina)

Research Associate

Joined in 2009

Left in 2010

Present: Regulatory Affairs Manager at Vifor Pharma, Zurich, Switzerland

Emma Formstone (Newall)

Research Assistant

Joined in 1994

Left in2000

Present: Teaching Fellow Biology Education, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

Michal Gdula

Research Associate

Joined in 2015

Left in 2019

Present: Group leader at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

Anne-Valerie Gendrel

Research Associate

Joined in 2005

Left in 2009

Present: Research associate at Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes,  Lisbon, Portugal

Jonathan Godwin

Senior Research Associate

Joined in 2008

Left in 2023

Present:  Institute of Developmental and Regenerative medicine (IDRM)/DPAG, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Maria Gomez

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joined in 2000

Left in 2005

Present: Group leader at CBM, Madrid, Spain

Isuho Hatada

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joined in 1997

Left in 1999

Present: Group leader at  the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation, Gunma University, Maebashi 371-8511 Japan

Colette Johnston (Sheardown)

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joined in 1996

Left in 2000

Present: Senior Director at CRESCENDO BIOLOGICS LIMITED, Babraham, UK

Mankgopo Kgatle

Academic Visitor

Joined in March 2017

Left in June 2018

Present: Head of Basic and Translational Research@NuMeRI, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Sean Maguire

Research Assistant

Joined in 2007

Left in 2012

Present: Research technician at Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, UK

Jacqueline Mermoud

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joined in 1997

Left in 2005

Present: Groupleader at Institute of Molecular Biology and Tumor Research, Marburg, Germany

Gabriele Migliorini

Research Associate

Joined in 2020

Left in 2024

Present: Senior Bioinformatician at Greg Hannon Group at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, UK

Benoit Moindrot

Research Associate

Joined in 2012

Left in 2016

Present: MCF / Assistant Professor  at Insitute of Integrative Biology of the Cell, Paris, France

Mita Mukherjee

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joined in 1997

Left in 1999

Present: VP, Associate General Counsel, IP at Emergent BioSolutions, Arlington, Virginia, USA

Sara Norton

Research Assistant

Joined in 2004

Left in 2007

Present: Genea Fertility Clinic, Sydney, Australia

Bilyana Popova

Research Assistant

Joined in 2000

Left in 2007

Present: Senior Trial Coordinator at UCL Cancer Trials Centre, London, UK

Chloe Roustan

Research Assistant

Joined in 2014

Left in 2017

Present: Senior Laboratory Research Scientist at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

Steven Sheardown

Senior Postdoctoral Fellow

Joined in 1993

Left in 1996

Present: Head of Molecular Biology and Cell Engineering, Cerevance Ltd, Cambridge, UK

Alexander Shevchenko

Visiting Scientist

WT international fellowship

Joined in 2003

Left in 2005

Present: Senior research scientist at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia

Nicolae Solcan

Research Associate

Joined in 2014

Left in 2016

Present: Senior Scientist at Sosei Heptares, Welwyn Garden City, UK

Lizzi Underwood

Research Associate

Joined in 2014

Left in 2016

Present: Associate Director - Protein Science at AstraZeneca, Cambridge, England, UK

Ilona Zvetkova

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joined in 2000

Left in 2003

Present: senior postdoctoral researcher at University of Cambridge, UK

Former PhD students

Mafalda Almeida

Joined in 2012

Graduated in 2017

Research Associate from 2018 

Present: Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK

Anwyn Apedaile

Joined in 2003

Left in 2008

Present: Science teacher, Australia

 Joseph (Joe) Bowness

Joined in 2017 as WT DPhil student

graduated in 2021

Research Associate 

from 2021 to Sept 2022


Present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Lars Velten lab, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

Marie-Laure Caparros

Joined in 1995

Left in 2000

Present: Scientific editor, Freelance  London, UK

Miguel Casanova

Joined in 2005

Left in 2009

Present: Postdoctoral Researcher at UMR7216 (Epigenetics and Cell Fate unit), Paris, France

Mariana de Napoles

Joined in 2000

Left in 2005

Present: Clinical Research Associate at GW Pharma Ltd., London, UK

Anne Grijzenhout

Joined in 2010 as WT DPhil student

graduated in 2014

Research Associate from 2014

Left in 2015

Present: Principal Consultant Integrated Health Solutions UK & Ireland at Medtronic, London, UK


 Jayati Jain

Joined in 2009 

(co-supervised with Dr. Mark Howarth)

Left in 2013

Present: Executive Director at Fluid AI, PhD in Biochemistry, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Winifred Mak

Joined in 2000

Left in 2003

Present: Assistant Professor Adjunct; Director, Early Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Program  at Yale University, USA

Veronica McCabe

Joined in 1990

Left in 1996

Present: Principal at Research Collective, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Alistair Newall 

Joined in 1993 as Research Assistant;

PhD student from 1996

Left in 2001

Present: Head of Biology, Greenford High School, London, UK 

Dominic Norris

Joined in 1990

Left in 1995

Present: Group leader at MRC Harwell, UK

Graeme Penny

Joined in 1990

Left in 1996

Present: Science teacher, Scotland, UK

Greta Pintacuda

Joined in 2012 as WT DPhil student

graduated in 2016

Research Associate from 2016

Left in 2018

Present: Postdoc at Eggan lab, Harvard Stem cell Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

Tanja Preissner

Joined in 2003

Left in 2007

Present: Senior Associate at Carpmaels & Ransford patenting firm, London UK

 Lisa Rodermund

Joined in 2016  (co-supervised with Dr. Lothar Schermelleh);

Graduated in 2020

Research Associate from 2020

Left in 2021

Present: Trainee Patent Attorney at Haseltine Lake Kempner LLP, London, UK

Claire Senner

Joined in 2005

Left in 2009

Present: Next Generation Fellow at the Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Jose Silva

Joined in 1998

Left in 2003

Present: Group leader Wellcome Trust-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Amy Tang

Joined in 2001

Graduated in 2005

Postdoctoral fellow from 2005

Left in 2008

Present: Senior Product Manager, Conflux at Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK

Anna Tattermusch

Joined in 2011

Left in 2015

Present: Medical Editor at Smart Reporting GmbH, Munich Area, Germany

Ligia Tavares

Joined in 2006

Left in 2010

Present: Postdoctoral Researcher at IBMC, University of Porto, Portugal

Komal Yasmin

Joined in 2018

Graduated in 2023

Left in 2023

Present:  Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Babraham Institute , Cambridge, UK

Tianyi Zhang

Joined in 2012 

graduated in 2016

Research Associate from 2016

Left in 2018

Present: Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, MRC  London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS), London, UK

Rotation and intern students

Ines Alvarez Rodrigo

Wellcome Trust D.Phil Rotation Student

Joined Oct 2015

Left Mar 2016

Present: Postdoc at the Francis Crick Institute: London, UK

Bianca Bloechl

Trainee,  Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Germany

Joined Sept 2016

Left May 2017

Present: PhD student at the University of Manchester, CRUK Manchester Institute, UK

Lucy Cornell

Wellcome Trust D.Phil Rotation Student

Joined Mar 2020

Left Sept 2020

Present: D.Phil student at WIMM, Oxford, UK

Leanne de Jager

Master student on international exchange, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands 

Joined Nov 2018

Left Jul 2019

Present: PhD student, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Laura Hankins

Wellcome Trust D.Phil Rotation Student

Joined June 2017

Left Sept 2017

Present: D.Phil student at Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, UK

Françoise Howe

Wellcome Trust D.Phil Rotation Student

2009

Present: Scientific Coordinator at Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Oxford, UK

Amy Hughes

Wellcome Trust D.Phil Rotation Student

Joined Nov 2016

Left Mar 2017

Present: Research Assistant at Biochemistry Department, Oxford, UK

Konstantinos Klaourakis

Wellcome Trust D.Phil Rotation Student

Joined Nov 2017

Left Mar 2018

Present: Wellcome Trust D.Phil Student in Srinivas Group, DPAG, University of Oxford, UK

Philipp Lorenz

Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP Rotation D.Phil Student, Oxford, UK

Joined Apr 2017

Left Jun 2017

Present: Head of Data Science at Basecamp Research, London, England, UK

Anna Dorothea Senft

Wellcome Trust D.Phil Rotation Student

2013

Present: Postdoctoral Fellow at Macfarlan lab, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

Susanna Streubel

Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP Rotation D.Phil Student

2016

Present: DPhil. Student at the Dept. of Plant Sciences, Oxford UK

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