CURRENT MEMBERS
2024 Group Photo
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
András Lakatos, MD PhD FRCP
Associate Professor
Hon. Consultant Neurologist
MRC Senior Clinical Fellow
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
RESEARCH COLLEAGUES
Mai Abdelgawad, MSc
Research Assistant / Lab Technician (MRC)
George Gibbons, PhD
Research Associate (Evelyn Trust/CIND)
(Collaboration with Susanna Mireau, Ole Paulsen, Petra Vertes)
Wing Hei Au, PhD
Research Associate (MRC)
Muhammad Asif, PhD
Senior Data Scientist
Senior Research Associate (MRC)
PHD STUDENTS
Oliver Davis, MBBS, MSc
PhD Research Training Fellow (MRC)
Pathology Registrar
(Collaboration with Srinjan Basu)
Betty (Yunxiao) Wang, MSc
DTP PhD Student (MRC)
(Collaboration with Shery Huang)
Alex Kingston, BSc
Stem Cell PhD Student (Wellcome Trust)
(Collaboration with Srinjan Basu)
Aditi Kulkarni
PhD Student (NIH-Cambridge)
(Collaboration with Zuhang Sheng)
Mollie McKeon
CCMR PhD Student (MS Society)
(Collaboration with Stephen Sawcer & Thora Karadottir)
Filip Kapular
Masters Student
Alvar Paris, BA, MB Chir
Neurology SpR
Academic Clinical Fellow
Shangqing William Yang
Part II Student
(Neuroscience & Medicine)
VISITING SCIENTISTS
2024
Prof. Elena Vecino (Visiting Professor) < University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
Tess Smith (Visiting RA) < MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
Ana Rossi (Visiting SRA) < Department of Pharmacology, Cambridge
Rebecca Lucey (Visiting PhD Student) < Department of Oncology, Cambridge
FORMER MEMBERS & DESTINATION
2017-2023
Marissa Sumathipala (Graduate Student) > Harvard University
Lu Yang (Visiting Graduate Student) > Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Navin Olschewski (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) > University of Cologne
Ann Cloos (Graduate Student) > MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Lea Wenger (Graduate Student) > Altos, Cambridge
Colleen Limegrower (Graduate Student) > DeCapo Brainscience, Boston
Kornélia Szebényi (Postdoctoral Research Associate) > Institute of Natural Sciences, Budapest
Jun Wei (Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist) > iRegene Therapeutics LTD
Veselina Petrova (Postdoctoral Research Associate) > Harvard University
Tess Smith (Graduate Student) > Cambridge University
Daniel Lloyd-Davies (Part II Neuroscience Student) > MRC LMB, Cambridge
Caitlin Stuart-Delavaine (Research Assistant) > Glasgow University
2011-2016
Giulia Tyzack (Graduate Student) > The Francis Crick Institute
Daniel Barson (Graduate Student) > Yale University
Martijn van der Lienden (Graduate Student) > Amsterdam University
Adrian Tan (Graduate Student) > Hong Kong University
Alexandru Gregoriou (Engineering Thesis Student - co-supervised with Dr. M. Lengyel)
Toby Baker (Physics Thesis Student co-supervised with Dr. S. Ahnert)
Alejandro Carnicer (Part II Neuroscience Student) > Cambridge University
Tomasz Cymes (Part II Neuroscience Student) > Cambridgeshire Medical Rotation
Kerala Adams-Carr (Part II Neuroscience Student) > University College London
Nike Lau (Part II Neuroscience Student) > Hong Kong University
Maria Falusi (Intern) > University of Szeged
COLLABORATORS
Madeline Lancaster (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
Susanna Mierau (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)
Ole Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, Cambridge)
Omer Bayraktar (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton)
David Klenerman (Department of Chemistry, Cambridge)
Srinjan Basu (Imperial College)