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Postgraduate School of Life Sciences

 

The Cancer Theme includes the following sub-groups:

  • Cancer Genetics and Evolution
  • Immunology and Inflammation
  • Stem Cells and Developmental Biology
  • Molecular Mechanisms and Signaling 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 the Cancer 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, 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@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/centre-for-cancer-genetic-epidemiology-...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Margaret Ashcroft
Topic: Biosciences (Molecular Cell Biology)
Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Medicine
Email: m.ashcroft@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.med.cam.ac.uk/
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
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; factors influencing access to treatment and outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease
Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: jrb1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/bradley/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
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 Simon Cook
Topic: Regulation of MAP and SAPK pathways and their role in cell proliferation apoptosis and oncogenesis
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: simon.cook@babraham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/simon-cook
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: Understanding the role of the Hedgehog signalling pathway in the adaptive anti-tumour response
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Oncology (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: Clinical and translational research management of Renal Cancer Lung Cancer and Pre-malignant Lung Disease
Themes: Cancer, Epidemiology and Public Health
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: 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 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: Dr Moritz Gerstung
Topic: Cancer
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: moritz.gerstung@ebi.ac.uk
Website: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/gerstung
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Olivier Giger
Topic: Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour, Colorectal Cancer, Hereditary Cancer Syndromes, Brain Cancer
Themes:
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: otg22@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/olivier-giger
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 Patholgy
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, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
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: 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, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
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: Dr Walid Khaled
Topic: The interface between basic developmental biology and cancer development
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: wtk22@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/wtk22@cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential 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, 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: 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 Michael Mason
Topic: Ion Channels in Leukaemia Calcium Signalling in Non-Excitable Cells
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: mjm39@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/michael-mason
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Charlie Massie
Topic: Risk stratification and precision medicine in early stage prostate cancer using non-invasive biomarkers and high-sensitivity genomics approaches.
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: cem45@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/our-research/massie
Applications from potential students are welcome
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 Masashi Narita
Topic: Cellular senescence and tumour suppressors
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Masashi.Narita@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/narita-group
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 Darerca Owen
Topic: Structure function relationships in small G proteins involved in cancer progression
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: do@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/owen.html
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: 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 cell cycle cancer neurogenesis
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: ap113@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/philpott.html
Applications from potential 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 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: 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 prediposition genes; inherited eye diseases and other inherited diseases in dogs and other companion animals
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: drs20@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/drs20@cam.ac.uk/
 Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
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:
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/
Applications from potential 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: 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
Name: Dr Philipp Zegerman
Topic: DNA replication
Themes: Cancer
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: paz20@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/~zegermanlab
Applications from potential students are welcome

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