Current Fellows
Stephanie Anderson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Diagnostics of extracellular vesicles in acute myocardial infarction.'
PIs: Associate Professor Naveed Akbar, Professor Robin Choudhury and Dr Luke Payne (NNRCO).
Aleksandra Boikova
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Targeting the transition to inflammatory lipid-associated macrophages in CVD.'
PIs: Prof Claudia Monaco, Dr Lea Dib, Prof Ashok Handa, Dr Luke Payne (NNRCO), Dr Giorgio Caratti (NNRCO), Dr Charlotte Daly (NNRCO), Dr Alexey Epanchintsev (NNRCO).
Ryan Carter
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'A unique angle to discover novel mechanisms in cardiovascular protection.'
PIs: Associate Professor Mathilda Mommersteeg and Professor Robin Choudhury.
Zhengkun Chen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Engineering human cardiac organoids at scale to accelerate in vitro cardiovascular research'.
PIs: Professor Molly Stevens, Professor Paul Riley, Professor Georg Holländer.
Elizabeth Figueroa-Juarez
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Discovery of novel atherosclerosis targets through delineating the arterial group regulatory pathways that change in response to pathological cardiovascular stimuli'.
PIs: Associate Professor Sarah De Val, Associate Professor Gillian Douglas, and Dr Luke Payne (NNRCO).
Olivia Conway
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Reprogramming insulin signalling in the human cardiovascular in the human cardiovascular system.'
PIs: Professor Charalambos Antoniades, Dr Ioannis Akoumianakis, Dr Bruna Brasil Brandao (NNRCO) and Dr Stella Hong (Novo Nordisk).
Jonathan Hedley
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Navigating the genetic perturbation landscape: Multi-modal, causal representation learning for target discovery'.
PIs: Professor Philip Torr, Dr Julien Fauqueur (NNRCO), Dr Cesar Medina (NNRCO), Dr Kaspar Märtens (NNRCO).
Pol Hernández Lladó
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Ligand-directed two-step labelling: a new technology to map the trafficking and interactome of GLUT4'.
PIs: Professor Angela Russell and Dr Jorge Correia (NNRCO).
Jun Liu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'An integrative cross-omics study of NAFLD and NASH.'
PIs: Professor Cornelia van Duijn and Dr Joanna Howson (NNRCO).
James Liu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Genomic approaches to improve understanding of T2D molecular phenotypes, mechanisms, and development of major complications in diverse populations.'
PIs: Professor Zhengming Chen , Dr Joanna Howson (NNRCO).
Matthew Lloyd
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Mechanistic investigation of a circadian clock enhancer in treatment of obesity.'
PIs: Associate Professor Sridhar Vasudevan, Professor Russell Foster, Associate Professor Aarti Jagannath.
Ali Shilleh
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Leveraging the cell cytoskeleton to produce GLP1R agonists with improved efficacy for beta cell preservation, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis resolution and gene therapy.'
PIs: Professor David Hodson and Dr Carina Ammala (NNRCO).
Taiyu Zhu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Integrating genetics and deep neural networks to identify future drug targets for cardiometabolic disease.'
PIs: Associate Professor Alejo Nevado-Holgado, Dr Joanna Howson (NNRCO), Dr Sile Hu (NNRCO), Dr Robert Kitchen (NNRCO).