Dr Maria Alcolea

In 2007, Maria received her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. She then moved to Barts Cancer Institute - Queen Mary University of London to start her Postdoctoral training with Dr. P.R. Cutillas, where she used phosphoproteomic approaches to study cancer drug resistance. In 2009 she joined Prof Phil Jones laboratory at the Hutchison/MRC cancer unit where she was awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (FP7). There she spent a total of 6 years studying epithelial stem cell behaviour using genetic lineage tracing approaches and methods from statistical physics.

In 2015, Maria was awarded a Wellcome/The Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship to establish her own laboratory to study epithelial stem cell plasticity in response to injury and tumour development.

Maria is currently a Principal Investigator at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and affiliate to the Oncology Department, University of Cambridge.