The team

Emily Hayes

SHU GTA/PhD student "Leveraging glycosylation for delivery and tissue retention of gold-based extracellular vesicle chemotherapeutics"

Sabreen Bawa

PhD student "The Role of Stress Responses and EVs in Mediating the Progression of Colorectal Cancer Metastasis"

Alexandra Fiala

Bowel Research UK PhD student "Illuminating the barriers leading to bowel cancer recurrence"

Charlotte Boyd

SHU GTA/PhD student "The impact of hyperglycaemia on the colorectal cancer microenvironment"

Illana Wilkinson

MRes Cancer & Cell Biology

Group alumni:

Ms Emma Richardson - MSci Biochemistry 2026.
Ms Sarah Higgins - SHU internship scheme, summer 2025.
Ms Fernanda Mendoza Gonzalez - API summer intern, summer 2025.
Mr Afsal Sali - MRes Cancer Biology 2025.
Dr Lucy Dascombe - "Transitioning new cancer drug testing to human tissue", Animal-Free Research UK Transition Grant postdoctoral research assistant 2025.
Dr Rawan Maani - "Transitioning new cancer drug testing to human tissue", Animal-Free Research UK Transition Grant postdoctoral research assistant 2024.
Dr Rawan Maani - "Interaction and Functional Impact of Colorectal Cancer Extracellular Vesicles on Escherichia coli". SHU GTA/PhD, 2024.
Dr Sonia Guarnerio - "A Multi-Model Study of Extracellular Vesicles in Bowel Cancer Invasion and Metastasis". Bowel Research UK PhD studentship, 2024.
Ms Kaya Colayan - API summer intern, summer 2024.
Mr Luka Brajdic - MRes Cancer Biology 2024.
Mr Otman Saud - MSci Biology 2024.
Ms Kara Chandler - MRes Cancer Biology 2023.
Mr George Ward - MSci Biomedical Science 2023.
Dr Filipe Hanson - "Breaking down barriers – re-purposing anti-fibrosis agents to improve cancer drug delivery". MRC confidence-in-concept postdoctoral research assistant, 2022-2023.
Ms Sophie Jorgensen - "Testing novel anti-cancer “exo-drugs” in a human tissue model". Animal-Free Research UK summer studentship, 2022.
Ms Rosie Davis - "Breaking down barriers to improved bowel cancer treatment". Animal-Free Research UK summer studentship 2021.
Ms Charlotte Humphries - MSci Biomedical Science 2021.
Dr Jamie Cooper - Msci Biochemistry 2020.
Mr Richard Cleverley - SHU summer internship 2019.
Dr Evie Gruszyk - SHU summer internship 2018.
Ms Rachel Sharp - "Producing a physiologically relevant human fat model". Animal-Free Research UK summer studentship 2018.
Mr Peka Hagouang Peka - MSci Biochemistry 2018.
Ms Roslyn Williams - SHU summer internship 2017.
Dr Evie Gruszyk - "Building an adipose-rich tumour microenvironment model to study fat-cancer cross-talk". Animal-Free Research UK summer studentship 2017.
Ms Roslyn Williams - MSci Human Biology 2016.
Ms Rebecca Hanwell - "Targeting tissue stiffness to treat bowel cancer" Bowel Research UK summer research assistant 2016.
Dr Nicola Wright - "Targeting tissue stiffness to treat bowel cancer" Bowel Research UK postdoctoral research assistant 2015-2016.

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