Leadership & governance

Director

Professor Bertie Göttgens is a Fellow of the AMA, Member of (EMBO), Wellcome Investigator & former President of ISEH. He has served on many national and international grant review panels, and several of his former trainees now hold senior positions in both academia and industry.

Bertie’s post-doctoral research delivered the first molecular understanding of key regulatory processes that define blood stem cell identity. After starting his own group, he continued work to decipher the blood stem cell regulatory code and then exploited this knowledge to generate computer models that faithfully capture the behaviour of normal blood stem cells, and model dysregulation of stem cell function in leukaemia.

Throughout the past 5 years, his group has performed internationally leading research in using new single cell profiling technologies. By expanding their scope beyond blood development, the group is now charting cellular diversification in mammalian embryos, all the way from pluripotent stem cells to the progenitors of all major organs.

Deputy Directors

Professor Göttgens is supported by two Deputy Directors to promote specific areas of Institute activity.

Professor Sanjay Sinha

Co-Deputy Director
School of Clinical Medicine

Professor Walid Khaled

Co-Deputy Director
School of Biological Sciences

Governance Committee

This is made up of senior members of the University who meet annually, providing oversight and alignment with University strategy and resources.

Professor Bertie Göttgens	Professor Sarah Bray	Professor Menna Clatworthy	Professor Patrick Maxwell
Professor Andrew McCaskie	Professor Kathy Niakan	Professor Julian Rayner	Professor Sanjay Sinha
Professor Jon Simons	Anthea Stanley