Principal investigators in theme:
| Name: Dr David Adams Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: da1@sanger.ac.uk Topic: Experimental cancer genetics Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/adams-group Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Maria Alcolea Department: Department of Oncology Email: mpa28@cam.ac.uk Topic: Epithelial Cell Fate and Plasticity Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/research/pis/alcolea Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Margaret Ashcroft Department: Department of Medicine Email: m.ashcroft@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular cell biology Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/ashcroft/ Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Tristan Barrett Department: Department of Radiology Email: tb507@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Prostate cancer Imaging Genito-urinary Radiology Website: http://radiology.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/departmental-staff/academic-... Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Sam Behjati Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: sb31@sanger.ac.uk Topic: Cancer genomics and single cell transcriptomics Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/behjati-group Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Mariann Bienz Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: mb2@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular Mechanism of Wnt signalling and cancer Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/m-bienz Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Jamie Blundell Department: Department of Oncology Email: jrb75@cam.ac.uk Topic: Evolutionary dynamics of cancer a disease of somatic evolution in our tissues. Website: https://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/our-research/blundell Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Michael Boemo Department: Department of Pathology Email: mb915@cam.ac.uk Topic: Developing computational methods that show how dysregulation or faults in cell cycle mechanisms can result in cancer Website: https://www.boemogroup.org/ Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Sarah Bohndiek Department: Department of Physics Email: seb53@cam.ac.uk Topic: Technological innovation in molecular imaging to improve our understanding of redox processes in cancer Website: http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/bohndieks Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Louise Boyle Department: Department of Pathology Email: lhb22@cam.ac.uk Topic: Antigen presentation to cells of the immune system Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/louise-boyle Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Andrea Brand Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) Email: a.brand@gurdon.cam.ac.uk Topic: Stem cells to synapses: regulation of self-renewal and differentiation in the nervous system Website: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/brand Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr James Brenton Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: james.brenton@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Ovarian cancer prognostic markers predictive markers bioinformaticsexpression profiling clinical trial design using molecular end points Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/brenton-group Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Kevin Brindle Department: Department of Biochemistry Email: kmb1001@cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular imaging in Cancer Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/brindle.html Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Guy Brown Department: Department of Biochemistry Email: gcb3@cam.ac.uk Topic: Microglia meuroinflammation cell death and phagocytic signalling Website: http://www.guybrown.net Themes: Cancer, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Clare Buckley Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Email: ceb85@cam.ac.uk Topic: My lab uses optogenetics and live confocal imaging of the zebrafish neural tube to study how the polarity of individual cells drives the organisation of a whole vertebrate organ Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/clare-buckley Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Neil Burnet Department: Department of Oncology Email: ngb21@cam.ac.uk Topic: Advanced radiotherapy techniques stereotactic radiotherapy radiosurgery intensity-modulated radiotherapy primary brain tumours Website: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/burnet.html Themes: Cancer Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Carlos Caldas Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: Carlos.Caldas@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Breast cancer; genomics proteomics metabolomics and bioinformatics Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/caldas-group Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Peter Campbell Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: pc8@sanger.ac.uk Topic: Cancer genetics and genomics Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/people/directory/campbell-peter Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jason Carroll Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: jason.carroll@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Nuclear receptor transcription Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/carroll-group Themes: Cancer Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Mike Chapman Department: Department of Haematology (NHSBT) Email: mac54@cam.ac.uk Topic: Myeloma and normal lymphoid biology Website: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-mike-chapman-2/ Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Murray Clarke Department: Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine) Email: mchc2@cam.ac.uk Topic: Novel mechanisms that induce vascular inflammation; particularly IL-1 family members and inflammasomes Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/clarke/ Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Infection and Immunity Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Francesco Colucci Department: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Email: fc287@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Immune cells at the fetal maternal interface; Control of tumour growth by immunity; Cell transplantation Website: https://www.obgyn.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-francesco-colucci/ Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity, Women's Health Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Simon Cook Department: Babraham Institute Email: simon.cook@babraham.ac.uk Topic: Regulation of MAP and SAPK pathways and their role in cell proliferation apoptosis and oncogenesis Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/simon-cook Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Isidro Cortes-Ciriano Department: European Bioinformatics Institute Email: icortes@ebi.ac.uk Topic: Cancer Genomics Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/cortes-ciriano Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Ana Cvejic Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) Email: as889@cam.ac.uk Topic: Developmental Haematopoiesis Website: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-ana-cvejic/ Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Pier Paolo D'Avino Department: Department of Pathology (Cellular Molecular Pathology Division) Email: ppd21@cam.ac.uk Topic: Regulation and mechanics of cell division and its de-regulation in cancer cells Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/paolo-davino Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Marc de la Roche Department: Department of Biochemistry Email: mad58@cam.ac.uk Topic: Oncogenic Wnt signaling in cancer Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/delaroche Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Maike de la Roche Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: Maike.DeLaRoche@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Understanding the role of the Hedgehog signalling pathway in the adaptive anti-tumour response Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/de-la-roche-group Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Ming-Qing Du Department: Department of Pathology (Molecular Histopathology Division) Email: mqd20@cam.ac.uk Topic: Lymphomagenesis; molecular pathology in diagnosis and prognosis Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/ming-du Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Alison Dunning Department: Department of Oncology Email: alisond@srl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Common low-penetrance risk factors for breast cancer Website: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/dunning.html Themes: Cancer, Women's Health Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Helena Earl Department: Department of Oncology Email: hme22@cam.ac.uk Topic: Clinical and translational research breast and ovarian cancers sarcomas Website: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/earl.html Themes: Cancer Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Douglas Easton Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care (Department of Oncology) Email: dfe20@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Genetic epidemiology (especially cancer) and statistical genetics Website: http://www.srl.cam.ac.uk/genepi/index.html Themes: Cancer, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr James Edgar Department: Department of Pathology (Division of Immunology) Email: je333@cam.ac.uk Topic: Membrane trafficking; MHC Class II antigen presentation Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/james-edgar Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Tim Eisen Department: Department of Oncology Email: tgqe2@cam.ac.uk Topic: Clinical and translational research management of Renal Cancer Lung Cancer and Pre-malignant Lung Disease Website: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/eisen.html Themes: Cancer, Epidemiology and Public Health Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Gerard Evan Department: Department of Biochemistry Email: gie20@cam.ac.uk Topic: Using Switchable Mouse Genetic Models to Validate Therapeutic Cancer Targets Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/evan.html Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Christine Farr Department: Department of Genetics Email: cjf1004@cam.ac.uk Topic: Chromosome biology centromeres topoisomerase II Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/christine-farr Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jasmin Fisher Department: Department of Biochemistry Email: jf416@cam.ac.uk Topic: Executable Biology Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/fisher Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald Department: Department of Oncology (MRC Cancer Unit) Email: rcf29@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular pathology (expression profiling molecular genetics in vitro assays) to identify risk groups (diagnostic and prognostic) for oesophageal cancer and preinvasive lesions Website: http://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/fitzgerald.html Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Oliver Florey Department: Babraham Institute Email: oliver.florey@babraham.ac.uk Topic: Autophagy (self eating) macroendocytosis (digestion of extracellular material) and entosis (a recently discovered form of cell cannibalism) Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/oliver-florey Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Christian Frezza Department: Department of Oncology (MRC Cancer Unit) Email: cf366@hutchison-mrc.cam.ac.uk Topic: Understanding the metabolic transformation of cancer cells Website: http://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/research/Christian-frezza-folder Themes: Cancer Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Ferdia Gallagher Department: Department of Radiology Email: fag1000@cam.ac.uk Topic: Oncological Imaging Biomarkers Hyperpolarised 13C MRI Website: http://radiology.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/departmental-staff/academic-... Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Mathew Garnett Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: mg12@sanger.ac.uk Topic: Translational Cancer Genomics Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/garnett-group Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Fanni Gergely Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: fanni.gergely@cancer.org.uk Topic: The role of cytoskeleton in cell division and polarity Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/gergely-group Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Moritz Gerstung Department: European Bioinformatics Institute Email: moritz.gerstung@ebi.ac.uk Topic: Cancer Website: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/gerstung Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Fiona Gilbert Department: Department of Radiology Email: fjg28@cam.ac.uk Topic: Breast and Oncology Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Website: http://radiology.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/departmental-staff/academic-... Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging, Women's Health Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Richard Gilbertson Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: Richard.Gilbertson@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Understanding the cellular and molecular origins of brain tumours with the aim of developing new cancer cures Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/gilbertson-group Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Bertie Gottgens Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) Email: bg200@cam.ac.uk Topic: Transcriptional control of haematopoietic stem cells Website: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-inv... Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Tony Green Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) Email: arg1000@cam.ac.uk Topic: Haematopoietic stem cells/leukemia Website: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-inv... Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Tim Halim Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: Tim.Halim@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Cancer immunology - the role of innate lymphoid cells Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/halim-group Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: D Ben Hall Department: MRC Cancer Unit Email: bh418@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Computational models of cancer networks evolution and spatial growth. Website: https://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/research/benjamin-hall-folder Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Greg Hannon Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: Greg.Hannon@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Biological functions and mode of actions of non-coding RNAs in normal development and cancer with particular focus on technology development Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/hannon-group Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Daniel Hodson Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) Email: djh1002@cam.ac.uk Topic: B lymphocyte development and malignant transformation towards leukaemia Website: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-daniel-hodson/ Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Kate Hughes Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: kh387@cam.ac.uk Topic: The interactions between different cell types within the mammary gland during regression at the end of lactation Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/hughes Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Brian Huntly Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) Email: bjph2@cam.ac.uk Topic: Leukaemia stem cells Leukaemogenesis cancer biology Website: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-inv... Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Laura Itzhaki Department: Department of Pharmacology Email: lsi10@cam.ac.uk Topic: Integrating biophysics into medicine: cell cycle regulation and protein degradation Website: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/lsi10@cam.ac.uk Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Duncan Jodrell Department: Department of Oncology Email: dij21@cam.ac.uk Topic: Clinical and translational research Website: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/jodrell.html Themes: Cancer Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Randall Johnson Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: rsj33@cam.ac.uk Topic: The micro-physiology of tissues and how it affects growth development and disease in mammalian genetic systems Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/rjohnson/ Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Phil Jones Department: Department of Oncology (MRC Cancer Unit) Email: phj20@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Stem cells and Cancer Website: http://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/jones.html Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Phil Jones Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: pj3@sanger.ac.uk Topic: Pre-cancer Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/jones-group Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Walid Khaled Department: Department of Pharmacology Email: wtk22@cam.ac.uk Topic: The interface between basic developmental biology and cancer development Website: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/wtk22@cam.ac.uk Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Tony Kouzarides Department: Department of Pathology (Virology Division/Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) Email: tk106@cam.ac.uk Topic: Transcriptional control by chromatin regulators Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/tony-kouzarides Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Torsten Krude Department: Department of Zoology Email: tk218@cam.ac.uk Topic: Control of human chromosome replication Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-torsten-krude Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Edmund Kunji Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Email: edmund.kunji@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk Topic: The structure and function of mitochondrial carriers Website: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/edmund-kunji Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Heike Laman Department: Department of Pathology (Cellular Molecular Pathology Division) Email: hl316@cam.ac.uk Topic: Cell cycle regulation lymphomagenesis haematopoiesis gamma-herpesvirus Parkinson's disease Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/heike-laman Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Catherine Lindon Department: Department of Pharmacology Email: acl34@cam.ac.uk Topic: Control of human cell division by proteolysis Website: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/lindon Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Trevor Littlewood Department: Department of Biochemistry Email: tdl2@cam.ac.uk Topic: Oncogenic signalling in cancer Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/littlewood Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr John Marioni Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: John.Marioni@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Developing computational tools to handle big data - using single cell genomics to study cell fate and early development Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/marioni-group Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Florian Markowetz Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: florian.markowetz@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Statistical and machine learning methodology to leverage complex biological data sources for biomarker discovery reconstruction of gene networks and diagnosis of disrupted signaling pathways in tumors. Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/markowetz-group Themes: Cancer Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Inigo Martincorena Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: im3@sanger.ac.uk Topic: Somatic evolution Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/martincorena-group Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Carla Martins Department: MRC Cancer Unit Email: c.martins@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Mechanisms of cancer progression lung cancer therapy Website: https://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/research/carla-martins-folder Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Michael Mason Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: mjm39@cam.ac.uk Topic: Ion Channels in Leukaemia Calcium Signalling in Non-Excitable Cells Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/mason_mi Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Charlie Massie Department: Department of Oncology Email: cem45@cam.ac.uk Topic: Risk stratification and precision medicine in early stage prostate cancer using non-invasive biomarkers and high-sensitivity genomics approaches. Website: https://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/our-research/massie Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Martin Miller Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: Martin.Miller@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Investigating intercellular communication in tumours by studying the transcriptome and proteome of specific cell populations Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/miller-group Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Eric Miska Department: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) Email: eam29@cam.ac.uk Topic: Control of gene expression through non-coding RNA Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/eric-miska Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Helen Mott Department: Department of Biochemistry Email: hrm28@cam.ac.uk Topic: Structural biology of proteins and complexes involved in signal transduction Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/mott.html Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin Department: Department of Oncology Email: dm742@cam.ac.uk Topic: Development of novel tools and nanodevices for cancer therapy and diagnosis. Website: https://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/our-research/munoz-espin Themes: Cancer Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Elizabeth Murchison Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: epm27@cam.ac.uk Topic: The genetics and evolution of transmissible cancers Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/murchison/ Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Matthew Murray Department: Department of Pathology Email: mjm16@cam.ac.uk Topic: Children's Cancer and Leukaemia investigating the expression of non-coding RNAs Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/matthew-murray Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Masashi Narita Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: Masashi.Narita@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Cellular senescence and tumour suppressors Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/narita-group Themes: Cancer Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Kelly Nguyen Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: knguyen@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular mechanism of telomere maintenance and the roles of telomeres in human diseases Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/kelly-nguyen/ Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Duncan Odom Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: Duncan.Odom@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Systems biology of cellular phenotypes regulation of miRNA expression liver and pancreas biology Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/odom-group Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug Department: Department of Pathology Email: ko256@cam.ac.uk Topic: PI3K in immunity infection and cancer Website: https://www.okkengroup.path.cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Darerca Owen Department: Department of Biochemistry Email: do@bioc.cam.ac.uk Topic: Structure function relationships in small G proteins involved in cancer progression Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/owen.html Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr K J Patel Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: kjp@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: in mRNA Polyadenylation Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/kj-patel Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Evangelia Petsalaki Department: European Bioinformatics Institute Email: petsalaki@ebi.ac.uk Topic: cell signaling networks models data integration Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/petsalaki Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Paul Pharoah Department: Department of Oncology (Department of Public Health and Primary Care) Email: paul1@srl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Genetic epidemiology of breast and ovarian cancer Website: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/pharoah.html Themes: Cancer, Women's Health Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Anna Philpott Department: Department of Oncology Email: ap113@cam.ac.uk Topic: Developmental biology cell cycle cancer neurogenesis Website: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/philpott.html Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sir Bruce Ponder Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: Bruce.Ponder@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Genetic susceptibility to cancer Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/ponder-group Themes: Cancer Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Emma Rawlins Department: Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: elr21@cam.ac.uk Topic: Stem and progenitor cells in the mammalian lung Website: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/rawlins Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Stefanie Reichelt Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: sr411@cam.ac.uk Topic: Non-linear imaging techniques (CARS FLIM) for label-free cancer diagnostics Website: http://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/core-facilities/light-microscopy-core Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Ingo Ringshausen Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) Email: ir279@cam.ac.uk Topic: Low grade lymphoma Website: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-ingo-ringshausen/ Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Nitzan Rosenfeld Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: Nitzan.Rosenfeld@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Development of novel diagnostic tools for cancer through the application of molecular and genomic technologies Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/rosenfeld-group Themes: Cancer Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Prof David Rowitch Department: Department of Paediatrics Email: dhr25@cam.ac.uk Topic: Glial Cells and Response to Injury Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/research/pis/rowitch Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Evis Sala Department: Department of Radiology Email: es220@cam.ac.uk Topic: Oncological Imaging Genitourinary Imaging MRI PET/CT PET/MR Website: http://radiology.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/departmental-staff/academic-... Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging, Women's Health Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Julian Sale Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: jes@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: Vertebrate mutagenesis and DNA damage tolerance Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/j-sale Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Shamith Samarajiwa Department: MRC Cancer Unit Email: SS861@MRC-CU.cam.ac.uk Topic: Computational Biology Regulatory Genomics Data Science & Artificial Intelligence approaches to decipher pathways networks and systems that regulate carcinogenesis Website: https://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/research/Shamith-Samarajiwa-folder Themes: Cancer Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Benedicte Sanson Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: bs251@cam.ac.uk Topic: We use genetics live confocal imaging computational analysis of cell behaviours and mathematical modeling to understand the morphogenesis of epithelia in developing Drosophila embryos Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/benedicte-sanson Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr David Sargan Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: drs20@cam.ac.uk Topic: Comparative and disease genetics. Mapping cancer prediposition genes; inherited eye diseases and other inherited diseases in dogs and other companion animals Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/drs20@cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Paul Schofield Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: pns12@hermes.cam.ac.uk Topic: Epigenetic effects of low dose radiation mouse pathology database Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/schofield/ Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Marisa Segal Department: Department of Genetics Email: ms433@hermes.cam.ac.uk Topic: Cell cycle control of mitotic spindle morphogenesis in budding yeast Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/marisa-segal Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Hayley Sharpe Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) Email: hjs49@cam.ac.uk Topic: Receptor tyrosine phosphatase signalling in physiology and disease Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-in... Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jacqui Shields Department: Department of Oncology (MRC Cancer Unit) Email: js970@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Stroma function in the tumour microenvironment Website: http://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/shields.html Themes: Cancer Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Elizabeth Soilleux Department: Department of Pathology Email: ejs17@cam.ac.uk Topic: Interesting projects available in immunity (TCR/BCR repertoire) cancer biology (esp lymphoma) histopathological imaging bioinformatics AI and clinical data handling. Active collaborations with the vet school maths engineering and industry Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/elizabeth-soilleux Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Medical Imaging, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Mike Stratton Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: cl24@sanger.ac.uk Topic: Cancer genetics and genomics Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/people/directory/stratton-sir-mike Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Simon Tavare Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: Simon.Tavare@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Computational molecular biology Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/tavare-group Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Suzanne Turner Department: Department of Pathology (Molecular Histopathology Division) Email: sdt36@cam.ac.uk Topic: Mechanisms of lymphomagenesis Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/suzanne-turner Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Hendrik van Veen Department: Department of Pharmacology Email: hwv20@cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular mechanisms of multidrug transporters: from bacteria to man Website: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/hwv20@cam.ac.uk Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Sakari Vanharante Department: MRC Cancer Unit Email: SV358@MRC-CU.cam.ac.uk Topic: Genetic dependencies in cancer functional genomics Website: https://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/research/sakari-vanharanta-folder Themes: Cancer Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Patrick Varga-Weisz Department: Babraham Institute Email: patrick.varga-weisz@babraham.ac.uk Topic: Chromatin dynamics Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/nuclear-dynamics/patrick-varga-weisz Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor George Vassiliou Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) Email: gsv20@cam.ac.uk Topic: Acute myeloid leukaemia clonal haematopoiesis Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/People/pi/vassiliou Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman Department: Department of Oncology (MRC Cancer Unit) Email: pa-venkitaraman@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Chromosomal instability and cancer: translating molecular insights to clinical practice Website: http://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/venkitaraman.html Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Thierry Voet Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: tv2@sanger.ac.uk Topic: Single-cell genomics Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/voet-group Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Alan Warren Department: Department of Haematology (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) Email: ajw1000@cam.ac.uk Topic: Pathogenesis of bone marrow failure syndromes and leukaemia Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-in... Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Christine Watson Department: Department of Pathology (Cellular Molecular Pathology Division) Email: cjw53@cam.ac.uk Topic: STAT signalling mammary gland biology Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/christine-watson Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Douglas Winton Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) Email: Doug.Winton@cruk.cam.ac.uk Topic: Intestinal biology colon cancer stem cell biology Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/winton-group Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
