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Scientist Profiles
Read about the career highlights, daily activities and future ambitions of some of the MRC-funded scientists.- Alex Brand
- Senior Research Fellow and MRC New Investigator at the University of Aberdeen
- Alex Gould
- Group leader in the developmental neurobiology programme at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), London
- Amy Foulkes
- A dermatologist and fellow on the North West England MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- Andy Blanchard
- Director of external discovery at GlaxoSmithKline
- Christine Ecker
- Lecturer in neuro-imaging at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King’s College London
- David Stephens
- MRC senior non-clinical fellow at the University of Bristol
- Diana Gibb
- Professor of epidemiology and consultant paediatrician at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
- Doug Turnbull
- Professor of neurology at the University of Newcastle and director of the Lifelong health and Wellbeing Centre for Brain Ageing and Vitality
- Emily Davies
- MRC industry CASE student at the University of Bristol
- Eve Johnstone
- Assistant university principal for mental health research and development at the University of Edinburgh
- George Davey Smith
- Director of the Children of the 90s cohort study and the MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology (MRC CAiTE) at the University of Bristol
- Giovanna Mallucci
- Programme leader and professor of neuroscience at the MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester
- Graham Clarke
- Chief executive of ImmBio, Cambridge
- Greg Winter
- Master of Trinity College, University of Cambridge and Former Deputy Director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Recipient of the MRC Millennium Medal 2013.
- Hashim Ahmed
- MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow at University College London and Clinical Lecturer in Urology at University College London and UCLH NHS Foundation Trust
- Hind Khalifeh
- MRC population health scientist fellow at University College London
- Ian Douglas
- MRC methodology research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Iain McNeish
- MRC senior clinical fellow at Barts and The London School of Medicine
- Jennifer Crinion
- MRC clinician scientist fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
- John O’Brien
- Research support scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge
- Julie Williams
- Professor of neuropsychological genetics at the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff
- Katie Buston
- Senior investigator scientist at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU), Glasgow
- Keisuke Kaji
- Group leader of the biology of reprogramming group at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Lindsay Hogg
- Senior Investigator Scientist in the Understandings and Uses of Public Health Research programme
- Lizzy Day
- MRC PhD student at the University of Cambridge
- Martin Birchall
- Professor of laryngology and ear, nose and throat surgeon, University College London
- Marion Henderson
- MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow
- Matt Cairns
- Research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Matt Jones
- MRC senior non-clinical fellow at the University of Bristol
- Matt Reeves
- Career development fellow at the University of Cambridge
- Mina Ryten
- MRC fellow with a Special Training Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics at the Institute of Neurology, University College London
- Nathan Davies
- Lecturer in biochemistry at the Institute of Hepatology, University College London
- Nicky Welton
- MRC methodology research fellow at the University of Bristol
- Nigel Davies
- MRC-funded clinical scientist at the University Hospital, Birmingham
- Nigel Minton
- Professor of applied molecular microbiology at the University of Nottingham
- Peter Andrews
- Professor of Biomedical Science and co-director of the Centre for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Sheffield
- Peter Henriksen
- Clinician researcher and consultant cardiologist at the Edinburgh Heart Centre, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
- Phil Quirke
- Yorkshire Cancer Research Centenary Chair of Pathology and honorary consultant at the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine
- Philip Bath
- Stroke Association Chair and Head of Stroke Medicine, and Acting Head of Cardiovascular Medicine, at the University of Nottingham
- Philip Cohen
- Director of the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit 1990–2012. Director of the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy 1998–2012. Recipient of the MRC Millennium Medal 2013.
- Qing-Jun Meng
- MRC Career Development Award Fellow at the University of Manchester
- Rebecca Fitzgerald
- Group Leader (Tenure Track), MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre
- Richard Emsley
- MRC fellow with a Career Development Award in Biostatistics at the University of Manchester
- Robert Clarke
- Reader in epidemiology and public health research medicine at the Clinical Trials Service Unit (CTSU), Oxford
- Robin Ali
- Professor of human molecular genetics at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London
- Rodrigo Moreno-Serra
- MRC Early Career Fellow in the Economics of Health, Centre for Health Policy, Imperial College London
- Ruth Loos
- Group leader of the aetiology of obesity programme at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge
- Steve Brown
- Director, MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell
- Tamara Hirsch
- MRC industry CASE student at King’s College London
- Vincenzo (Enzo) Cerundolo
- Group leader of the tumour immunology programme and associate director of the MRC Human Immunology Unit, Oxford
- Zam Cader
- Clinician scientist at the MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Oxford