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Postgraduate School of Life Sciences

 

The Cancer Research Theme includes the following sub-groups:

  • Cancer Genetics and Evolution
  • Immunology and Inflammation
  • Stem Cells and Developmental Biology
  • Molecular Mechanisms and Signalling Pathways
  • Diagnostic and Imaging Techniques
  • Epidemiology and Risk Stratification
  • Precision Medicine and Therapeutics
  • Aging and Senescence
  • Machine Learning and Computational Analysis
  • Cellular Physiology and Metabolism

 

Principal Investigators in this Theme:

Name: Dr David Adams
Topic: Experimental cancer genetics
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: da1@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/adams-group
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Sarah Aitken
Topic: Genomic pathology; Cancer evolution; Image analysis
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Medical Imaging, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Toxicology Unit
Email: sa696@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.aitkenlab.org
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Maria Alcolea
Topic: Epithelial Cell Fate and Plasticity
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: mpa28@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/research/pis/alcolea
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Antonis Antoniou
Topic: Cancer genetic epidemiology, cancer risk modelling, genetic epidemiology of BRCA1, BRCA2 and other cancer susceptibility genes
Themes: Cancer, Epidemiology and Public Health, Women's Health
Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Email: aca20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://ccge.medschl.cam.ac.uk/antonis-antoniou/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr  Tristan Barrett
Topic: Prostate cancer Imaging Genito-urinary Radiology
Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging
Department: Department of Radiology
Email: tb507@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://radiology.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/departmental-staff/academic-...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Sam Behjati
Topic: Cancer genomics and single cell transcriptomics
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: sb31@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/behjati-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mariann Bienz
Topic: Molecular Mechanism of Wnt signalling and cancer
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: mb2@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/m-bienz
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Giulia Biffi
Topic: Pancreatic Cancer
Themes: Cancer
Department:  Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
Email: Giulia.Biffi@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://biffilab.wordpress.com/our-team/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jamie Blundell
Topic: Evolutionary dynamics of cancer a disease of somatic evolution in our tissues.
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: jrb75@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/our-research/blundell
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Michael Boemo
Topic: Developing computational methods that show how dysregulation or faults in cell cycle mechanisms can result in cancer
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: mb915@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.boemogroup.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Sarah Bohndiek
Topic: Optical molecular imaging for early cancer detection
Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging
Department: Department of Physics / Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
Email: seb53@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.bohndieklab.org
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Louise Boyle
Topic: Antigen presentation to cells of the immune system
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: lhb22@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.teamtapbpr.co.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor John Bradley
Topic: Regulation and function of death receptors in the microvasculature
Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: jrb1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/bradley/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor James Brenton
Topic: Ovarian cancer prognostic markers predictive markers bioinformaticsexpression profiling clinical trial design using molecular end points
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: james.brenton@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/brenton-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Guy Brown
Topic: Microglia, neuroinflammation & neurodegeneration
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: gcb3@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.microglia.info/guybrown
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Carlos Caldas
Topic: Breast cancer; genomics proteomics metabolomics and bioinformatics
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Carlos.Caldas@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/caldas-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Peter Campbell
Topic: Cancer genetics and genomics
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: pc8@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/people/directory/campbell-peter
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Jason Carroll
Topic: Nuclear receptor transcription
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: jason.carroll@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.carroll-lab.org.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mike Chapman
Topic: Myeloma and normal lymphoid biology
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (NHSBT)
Email: mac54@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-mike-chapman-2/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Prof Murray Clarke
Topic: Novel mechanisms that induce vascular inflammation; particularly IL-1 family members and inflammasomes
Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine (Section of CardioRespiratory Medicine)
Email: mchc2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/clarke/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Menna Clathworthy
Topic: Tissue immunity in health and disease
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: mrc38@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/clatworthy/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Francesco Colucci
Topic: Immunology of reproduction, Infections, Cancer
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity, Women's Health
Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Email: fc287@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.obgyn.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-francesco-colucci/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Isidro Cortes-Ciriano
Topic: Cancer Genomics
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: icortes@ebi.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/cortes-ciriano
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mireia Crispin
Topic: We use machine learning and computational data integration models to understand cancer on multiple scales, from medical imaging down to molecular profiles
Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: mc973@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://micrisor.github.io/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ana Cvejic
Topic: Developmental Haematopoiesis
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: as889@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-ana-cvejic/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Pier Paolo D'Avino
Topic: Regulation and mechanics of cell division and its de-regulation in cancer cells
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Cellular Molecular Pathology Division)
Email: ppd21@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/paolo-davino
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Maike de la Roche
Topic: Hedgehog signalling in the immune system
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity
Department: Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
Email: Maike.DeLaRoche@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/de-la-roche-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Marc de la Roche
Topic: Oncogenic Wnt signaling in cancer
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: mad58@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/delaroche
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Ming-Qing Du
Topic: Lymphomagenesis; molecular pathology in diagnosis and prognosis
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology (Molecular Histopathology Division)
Email: mqd20@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/ming-du
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Helena Earl
Topic: Clinical and translational research breast and ovarian cancers sarcomas
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: hme22@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/earl.html
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Douglas Easton
Topic: Genetic epidemiology (especially cancer) and statistical genetics
Themes: Cancer, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health
Department: Public Health and Primary Care
Email: dfe20@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/centre-for-cancer-genetic-epidemiology...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr James Edgar
Topic: Membrane trafficking; MHC Class II antigen presentation
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Division of Immunology)
Email: je333@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/james-edgar
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Tim Eisen
Topic: Drug development, renal cancer, screening for cancer
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: tgqe2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/eisen.html
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Christine Farr
Topic: Chromosome biology centromeres topoisomerase II
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: cjf1004@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/christine-farr
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr David Fernandez-Antoran
Topic: Cell competition and radiation biology
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: The Gurdon Institute
Email: df336@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/fernandez-antoran
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald
Topic: Own research programme focuses on new approaches for early detection of oesophageal and gastric cancer based on understanding how the cancer develops and evolves
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Oncology (MRC Cancer Unit)
Email: rcf29@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.earlydetectioncambridge.org.uk/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Oliver Florey
Topic: Autophagy (self eating) macroendocytosis (digestion of extracellular material) and entosis (a recently discovered form of cell cannibalism)
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: oliver.florey@babraham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/oliver-florey
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Alexander Frankell
Topic: Monitoring cancer evolution using tumour DNA fragments in blood
Themes: Cancer
Department: Early Cancer institute
Email: alexander.frankell@crick.ac.uk
Website: NA
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ferdia Gallagher
Topic: Oncological Imaging Biomarkers Hyperpolarised 13C MRI
Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging
Department: Department of Radiology
Email: fag1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://radiology.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/departmental-staff/academic...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jennifer Gallop
Topic: Dynamics and regulation of filopodia
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Gurdon Institute
Email: jlg38@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.gallop.group
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Melissa Gammons
Topic: Molecular Mechanisms of Wnt signalling in rare and common disease pathenogenesis
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medical Genetics
Email: melissag@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: NA
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Mathew Garnett
Topic: Translational Cancer Genomics
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: mg12@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/garnett-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Fiona Gilbert
Topic: Breast and Oncology Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging, Women's Health
Department: Department of Radiology
Email: fjg28@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://radiology.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/departmental-staff/academic-...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Richard Gilbertson
Topic: Understanding the cellular and molecular origins of brain tumours with the aim of developing new cancer cures
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Richard.Gilbertson@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/gilbertson-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor David Glover
Topic: Mitotic protein kinases centrosomes microtubule associated proteins
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: dmg25@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/david-glover
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Bertie Gottgens
Topic: Blood development, blood stem cells, leukaemia
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: bg200@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/gottgens
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Tony Green
Topic: Haematopoietic stem cells/leukemia
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: arg1000@cam.ac.uk
Website:  https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/green
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Tim Halim
Topic: Cancer immunology - the role of innate lymphoid cells
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Tim.Halim@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/halim-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Greg Hannon
Topic: Biological functions and mode of actions of non-coding RNAs in normal development and cancer with particular focus on technology development
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Greg.Hannon@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/hannon-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Phillip Hawkins
Topic: Cellular signalling with a focus on the PI3K signalling pathway regulating cell growth
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: phillip.hawkins@babraham.ac.uk
Website: https://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/phillip-hawkins
Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Dr  Brian Hendrich
Topic: Transcriptional control of stem cell fate
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells, Women's Health
Department: Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: bdh24@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/hendrich
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Daniel Hodson
Topic: Elucidating the mechanisms of transformation from normal B lymphocyte to malignant B cell lymphoma
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: djh1002@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/hodson
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Liz Hook
Topic: Innovating Protein Technologies for Therapeutic and Vaccine Design
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: ceh25@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/liz-hook
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jon Houseley
Topic: Mechanisms by which cells adapt to their environment
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: jon.houseley@babraham.ac.uk
Website: https://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/epigenetics/jon-houseley
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Mark Howarth
Topic: Innovating Protein Technologies for Therapeutic and Vaccine Design
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: mh2186@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/Howarth/research
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kate Hughes
Topic: The interactions between different cell types within the mammary gland during regression at the end of lactation
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: kh387@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/hughes
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Brian Huntly
Topic: Cancer biology (leukaemia and lymphoma), epigenetics
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: bjph2@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/huntly
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Laura Itzhaki
Topic: Tandem-repeat proteins: Folding, function, role in disease, and therapeutic intervention
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: lsi10@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/lsi10@cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Stephen Jackson
Topic: Maintenance of genome stability/DNA repair
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: CRUK Cambridge Institute
Email: spj13@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/jackson-group
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Rajesh Jena
Topic: Neuro-oncology / Radiotherapy / Data science and machine learning
Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging
Department: Oncology
Email: rjena@nhs.net
Website: https://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/directory/r-jena
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Duncan Jodrell
Topic: Clinical and translational research
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: dij21@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/jodrell.html
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Randall Johnson
Topic: The micro-physiology of tissues and how it affects growth development and disease in mammalian genetic systems
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: rsj33@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/rjohnson/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Phil Jones
Topic: Stem Cells and Cancer
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: phj20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/directory/p-jones
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr. Siddhartha Kar
Topic: cancer epidemiology, cancer genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, clonal haematopoiesis
Themes: Cancer, Women's Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Oncology
Email: sk718@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.earlycancer.cam.ac.uk/dr-siddhartha-kar
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Arthur Kaser
Topic: Metabo-genetics of autoinflammation/autoimmunity (focus on Crohn's and Still's disease). Core metabolism of the cell.
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology
Department: Department of Medicine & Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease
Email: ak729@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/arthur-kaser/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Tony Kouzarides
Topic: Transcriptional control by chromatin regulators
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Virology Division/Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: tk106@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/tony-kouzarides
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Torsten Krude
Topic: Control of human chromosome replication
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: tk218@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-torsten-krude
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Heike Laman
Topic: Ubiquitin ligases, cancer, Parkinson's disease, proteostasis, mitochondria, cell cycle
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: hl316@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/heike-laman
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Joo-Hyeon Lee
Topic: Stem cells and niches in tissue homeostasis, regeneration, and disease
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: jhl62@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/research/pis/lee
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Catherine Lindon
Topic: Control of human cell division by proteolysis
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: acl34@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/lindon
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Trevor Littlewood
Topic: Oncogenic signalling in cancer
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: tdl2@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/littlewood
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Bidesh Mahata
Topic: Steroid-producing immune cells in regulating cancer inflammation and immunity
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: bm562@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/bidesh-mahata
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Stefan Marciniak
Topic: The Marciniak lab studies cell biology and genetics of rare lung diseases. Projects in alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency focus on its cell biology. Mesothelioma projects involve (i) the development of cancer organoid models, (ii) characterising the disease using new single cell technologies, and (iii) using nanotechnology to deliver drugs to mesothelioma cell. Our familial pneumothorax projects crated the NHS Pneumothorax Gene Panel and now focus on AI-assisted diagnosis
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics , Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: sjm20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-stefan-marciniak
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John Marioni
Topic: Developing computational tools to handle big data - using single cell genomics to study cell fate and early development
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: John.Marioni@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/marioni-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Florian Markowetz
Topic: Developing technologies for doctors to make better decisions faster. Machine learning and data science for chromosomal instability, computational pathology and network reconstruction
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Oncology / CRUK Cambridge Institute
Email: Fm327@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.markowetzlab.org
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr  Inigo Martincorena
Topic: Somatic evolution
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: im3@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/martincorena-group
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Eric Miska
Topic: Control of gene expression through non-coding RNA
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: eam29@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/eric-miska
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Helen Mott
Topic: Structure, dynamics and interactions of proteins involved in signal transduction
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: hrm28@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/mott
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin
Topic: Development of novel tools and nanodevices for cancer therapy and diagnosis.
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: dm742@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/our-research/munoz-espin
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Elizabeth Murchison
Topic: Transmissible cancers
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity , Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: epm27@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Matthew Murray
Topic: Investigating genomic and non-coding RNA abnormalties in cancer
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: mjm16@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/matthew-murray
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jyoti Nangalia
Topic: Clonal Evolution, Cancer and Ageing
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: jn218@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/nangalia
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor James Nathan
Topic: Cellular mechanisms of oxygen and nutrient sensing
Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: jan33@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/james-nathan/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kelly Nguyen
Topic: Molecular mechanism of telomere maintenance and the roles of telomeres in human diseases
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: knguyen@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/kelly-nguyen/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug
Topic: PI3K in immunity infection and cancer
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: ko256@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.okkengroup.path.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Manav Pathania
Topic: Brain tumours
Themes: Cancer, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: mp915@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pathanialab.com/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Virginia Pedicord
Topic: Microbiota effects on host physiology

Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: vap33@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/virginia-pedicord/
Sorry no students can be taken this year

Name: Prof. Luca Pellegrini
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of DNA replication and recombination
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: lp212@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/pellegrini.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Evangelia Petsalaki
Topic: Cell signalling, systems biology, computational biology
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: petsalaki@ebi.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/petsalaki
Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Professor Anna Philpott
Topic: developmental biology, stem cell biology, cancer
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: ap113@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/philpott
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Emma Rawlins
Topic: Stem and progenitor cells in the mammalian lung
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: elr21@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/rawlins
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ingo Ringshausen
Topic: B cell tumours, microenvironment
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: ir279@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/ringshausen
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Hugh Robinson
Topic: Electrophysiology of Cancer Cells, Cancer Neuroscience
Themes: Cancer, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: hpcr@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/robinson/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nitzan Rosenfeld
Topic: Development of novel diagnostic tools for cancer through the application of molecular and genomic technologies
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Nitzan.Rosenfeld@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/rosenfeld-group
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor David Rowitch
Topic: Glial Cells and Response to Injury
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Paediatrics
Email: dhr25@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/research/pis/rowitch
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Rahul Roychoudhuri
Topic: Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy,Molecules and Cells
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity,
Department: Department of Paediatrics
Email: rr257@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://roychoudhurilab.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Oscar Rueda
Topic: Development of statistical models for the analysis of large genomic and transcriptomic datasets.
Themes: Cancer
Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit
Email: Oscar.Rueda@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/people/in-alphabetical-order/n-to-s/oscar-...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Kourosh Saeb-Parsy
Topic: Transplantation, Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Immunotherapy
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Surgery
Email: ks10014@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.saeb-parsy.group.cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Julian Sale
Topic: Vertebrate mutagenesis
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: jes@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/jes/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Benedicte Sanson
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
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: bs251@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/benedicte-sanson
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr David Sargan
Topic:
Comparative and disease genetics. Mapping Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome (BOAS) associated genes, cancer predisposition genes; inherited eye diseases and other inherited diseases in dogs and other companion animals, partially breed specific canine cancers.
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: drs20@cam.ac.uk
Website:
https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/drs20%40cam.ac.uk
Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Marisa Segal
Topic: Cell cycle control of mitotic spindle morphogenesis in budding yeast
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: ms433@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/marisa-segal
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Benjamin Simons
Topic: Developmental biology of epithelial tissues and cancer
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Gurdon Institute, Stem Institute and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Email: bds10@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bds10/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Elizabeth Soilleux
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
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Medical Imaging, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: ejs17@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/elizabeth-soilleux
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Mike Stratton
Topic: Cancer genetics and genomics
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: cl24@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/people/directory/stratton-sir-mike
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr John Suckling
Topic: Brain imaging methods and analysisPsychiatry, Brain Imaging, Bioinformatics, Cognitive recovery, Neuroscience
Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Psychiatry
Email: js369@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?js369
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Richard Timms
Topic: Genetic interrogation of the ubiquitin-proteasome system
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine (CITIID)
Email: rtt20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.timmslab.com
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Marc Tischkowitz
Topic: Hereditary cancer predisposition, translational genomics
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Medical Genetics
Email: mdt33@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://medgen.medschl.cam.ac.uk/dr-marc-tischkowitz-2/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Suzanne Turner
Topic: Paediatric cancer
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Pathology (Division of Cellular and Molecular pathology)
Email: sdt36@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/suzanne-turner
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Konstantinos Tzelepis
Topic: RNA modifications in stem cell homeostasis
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: kt404@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-konstantinos-tzelepis/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor George Vassiliou
Topic: Leukamia, pre-leukaemia, clonal haematopoiesis, clonal evolution
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: gsv20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/vassiliou
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Alan Warren
Topic: Mechanisms of ribosome assembly
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: ajw1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-alan-j-warren-fmedsci
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Caroline Watson
Topic: Understanding the progression of pre-leukaemic conditions in order to enable early detection and prevention of blood cancer
Themes: Cancer
Department: Early Cancer Institute, Department of Oncology
Email: cw672@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.earlycancer.cam.ac.uk/dr-caroline-watson
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Douglas Winton
Topic: Intestinal biology colon cancer stem cell biology
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Doug.Winton@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/winton-group
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome

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