Our Team
Meet the Team
Our team of is dedicated to understand how blood stem cells are formed and how their function is perturbed in bone marrow failure syndromes and haematological disease. We use a mix of classical developmental biology and state of the art CRISPR technology and single cell genomics in zebrafish and cell models.
Rui Monteiro
Lead Researcher
Ben Edginton-White
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Abigail Grainger
PhD student
Lucy Copper
PhD student
Alex Thornton
MSc by Research
Dashuai Wu
PhD student
Joan Pera-Garcia
visiting PhD student
Usmaan Maqsood
Clinical PhD student
Alumni
Postdoctoral researchers
Monica Kreksmarik
Fatma Kok
Chris Mahony
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PhD students
Wenchao Gu
Tomasz Dobrzycki
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MSc Students
2024
Kacper Drukarczyk
Bea Storer-Prescott
Yichen Guo
Tianming Meng
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2023
Melita Tvardauskaite
Danchen Wang
MSc students
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2022
Amy Churchlow
Numan Amin
2021
Sofia Browne
Wenzheng Xu
2020
Cinzia Zichinno
Ellinor Marwick
Christos Bampos
Oliver Banks
2019
Bahkta Fedlaoui (Erasmus+ programme)
Alice Blevins
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Summer placements
Prav Nymalan (2023)
Rebecca Mulder (2024)
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