Current Fellows
Thomas Agbaedeng
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘Leveraging genomic approaches and genetic associations to identify potential new drug targets in cardiometabolic disease’.
PIs: Professor Chris O'Callaghan and Dr Joanna Howson (NNRCO).
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
Inhye Park
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
'Deciphering the biology of resident vascular macrophages in atherosclerosis.'
PIs: Professor Claudia Monaco, Professor Irina Udalova, Professor Paul Riley and Dr Alexey Epanchinstev (NNRCO).
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, Dr Sile Hu, Dr Robert Kitchen (NNRCO).