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Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

 

Meet the scientists leading the 28 stem cell laboratories in the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute



Dr Maria Alcolea 
Epithelial cell fate and plasticity 

Prof Roger Barker
Parkinson's and Huntington's disease

Thorsten Boroviak
Dr Thorsten Boroviak
Primate embryogenesis

Dr Harry Bulstrode
Neural stem cells in development, regeneration and cancer

 

Dr Maria Duque-Correa
Tissue damage, regeneration and stem cell
perturbation by parasitic worms

Prof. Cédric Ghevaert
In vitro production of platelets for transfusion

Prof. Bertie Göttgens

Cellular decision making in normal and leukaemic 
blood stem cells

Prof. Tony Green

Haematopoiesis and haematological malignancies



Dr Brian Hendrich

Transcriptional control of stem cell fate

Dr Daniel Hodson

Mutation timing in lymphomagenesis

Prof. Brian Huntly

Leukaemia stem cell biology and leukaemogenesis

Prof. Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir

Neurotransmitter signalling to central nervous
system 
progenitor cells

Prof. Walid Khaled

Epithelial cell fate and tumour development

Prof. Elisa Laurenti 

Human haematopoietic stem cells biology in health and disease

Dr Joo-Hyeon Lee

Stem cells and niches

Prof. Andrew McCaskie

Regenerative therapies for bone and cartilage repair

Prof. Simón Méndez-Ferrer

Blood stem cell niches

Dr Jyoti Nangalia

Origin and evolution of blood cancers

Prof. Anna Philpott

Proneural transcription factors

Prof. David Rowitch

Glial cells and response to injury

Dr Fotios Sampaziotis

Hepatobiliary disorders

Prof. Ben Simons

Tracing stem cell fate in development,
maintenance and disease



Prof. Sanjay Sinha
Cardiovascular diseases

Dr Mekayla Storer

Stem cells and limb regeneration

Dr Richard Tyser 

Emergence of form and function during early heart development

Dr Konstantinos Tzelepis 

Stem cells, Cancer, Ageing, RNA modifications

Prof. George Vassiliou

Leukaemic haemopoietic stem cells

Prof. Matthias Zilbauer

Intestinal stem cell biology