Group leader
Prof. Laura S. Itzhaki
Professor of Structural Pharmacology
CRSid: lsi10
Senior Research Associates
Pam J. E. Rowling
CRSid: pjer2
Project: Investigating and targeting the mechanism of β-catenin and its interaction partner
Post-docs
Andrew Baker
CRSid: agb59
Project: Drew's research is focused on Nanoparticle based biological reactors, and targeted protein degraders.
Luisa Capalbo
CRSid: lc284
Project: Using self-assembling, multi-functional peptide arrays to target degradation of disease-associated proteins in cells.
Boguslawa Korona
CRSid: bk409
Project: Development of functional de novo designed proteins to modulate cellular pathways.
Maria Zacharopoulou
crsid: mz387
Project: Building a repeat-protein toolkit for mechanosensing.
Graduate Students
Laura Blenkarn ((David James-Wolfson College joint PhD student with Dr Cathy Wilson))
CRSid: lb883
Mateo Hoare (joint PhD student with Dr Janet Kumita)
Project: Investigating the role of biomolecular condensates in the autophagy-lysosome pathway with engineered multifunctional proteins
CRSid: mph55
Chris Ng (Gates Cambridge Scholar)
Project: Development of synthetic multifunctional biomolecular condensates using engineered tandem repeat proteins.
CRSid: tlcn2
Adrian Pui Ting Ho
Project: Nanoparticle-based Target Eliminators (NTEs) to Guide and Monitor Protein-Degradation in Hard-to-Treat Cancers and Chemotherapy-Induced Senescence
CRSid: pth28
Yawei Qi
CRSid: yq276
Huey Ying Kok
CRSid hyk27
Marco Tsang
CRSid klt55
Chloe Burgess
CRSid cmb248
Nora Haanaes
CRSid nalh2
Khusboo Matwani
CRSid km941
Project: I will be studying tandem-repeat proteins using single-molecule methods.
Visitors
NB: To email any of us, use CRSid+@cam.ac.uk
Our collaborators
- Katerina Artavanis-Tsakonas (Cambridge)
- Ivet Bahar (Stony Brook, USA)
- Rosana Collepardo (Cambridge)
- Aitziber Cortajarena (CIC biomaGUNE, Spain)
- Ljiljana Fruk (Cambridge)
- Reuven Gordon (Victoria, Canada)
- Janet Kumita (Cambridge)
- Cath Lindon (Cambridge)
- Ioanna Mela (Cambridge)
- Taufiq Rahman (Cambridge)
- David Spring (Cambridge)
- Andy Wilson (Birmingham)
- Cathy Wilson (Cambridge)
- Dek Woolfson (Bristol)
- Shang-Hua Yang (Taiwan)
Alumni
- Dr Kit Tang – Roche Diagnostitcs, Shanghai
- Prof Frederic Rousseau – VIB Switch Laboratory, K.U. Leuven
- Prof Joost Schymkowitz – VIB Switch Laboratory, K.U. Leuven
- Hannah Wilkinson – Staff employee, VIB Switch Laboratory, K.U. Leuven
- Ass Prof Markus Seeliger – Stony Brook University School of Medicine
- Dr Caroline Ekblad – Director Alliance and IP Management, Affibody AB
- Wee Long Chin – Medical School
- Dr Richard Hutton – Senior scientist at Canterbury Scientific Ltd., New Zealand
- Dr Alan Lowe – Lecturer in Single Molecule Biophysics, University of London
- Dr Nicholas Werbeck – Post-doc, UCL
- Dr Rebecca Cook – Research Information Officer, The Institute of Cancer Research
- Sarah Schwitalla – Institute of Molecular Immunology and Experimental Oncology, TUM
- Dr Matthew Moreau – Assistant Manager Internal Audit, WWP, New York
- Dr Ben Murton – Researcher Developer and College Teaching Associate (St John’s College)
- Dr David Serquera-Peyro – General Practitioner, Switzerland
- Dr Rachel Bashford-Rodgers – Sir Henry Wellcome Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Cambridge & Stanford
- Dr Sadie Kelly – Clinical Data Manager, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
- Dr David Gaboriau – Microscopy specialist, Imperial College London
- Terese Herling – Post-doc with Dr. Tuomas Knowles, Chemistry Department, Cambridge
- Dr Stephen McLaughlin – Joint Head of Biophysics, MRC-LMB
- Ryan Roark – Graduate School, Southern California Institute of Architecture
- Dr Anna Diller – Post-doc, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich
- James Carter – Imperial College London
- Dr Maksym Tsytlonok – Post-doc, Structural Biology Research Centre, Belgium
- Dr Maikel Fransen – RA, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge
- Dr James Wilkinson – Head of European Sales, LUMICKS
- Nicola Hale – Free-lance artist
- Michela Zuffo – PhD student, Università degli Studi di Pavia
- Dr Yalda Javadi – Senior Grants Communications Officer, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
- Desislava Staneva – PhD student, University of Edinburgh
- Rachel Flynn and Suzzan Sithirangathan (Parmacology Part II, graduated 2014)
- Nick Lorch and Holly Newton (Pharmacology Part II, graduated 2015)
- Dr Anasuya Chattopadhyay – Scientific Portfolio Manager, CRUK Cambridge Centre
- Luma Khasati and Sujit Gnanakumar (Pharmacology Part II, 2016)
- Dr Elin Sivertsson - Senior Scientist, Immunocore Ltd., Oxford
- Aleksandra Eremina - AMGEN Scholar 2016, University of Edinburgh
- Anna Chaplin - Summer student 2016, Durham University
- Dr Sonja Dunbar - Teaching By-Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge
- Dr Wenshu Xu - Research Scientist, Medimmune-Astrazeneca, London
- Dr Alexander Guttenplan - Postdoctoral Fellow, Maastricht University
- Antonia Kefala-Stavridi - PhD in Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
- Dr Benjamin Smith - Managing Director of Victory Point Boardgames Cafe
- Dr Albert Perez-Riba - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
- Anna Chaplin - PhD in Epidemiology, University of Cambridge
- Dr Sarah Madden - Research Associate, University of Bath
- Dr Marie Synakewicz - Research Associate, Schuler lab, Zurich
- Dr Rohan Eapen - Athebio, Zurich
- Dr Grasilda Zenkeviciute - Proxygen, Basel
- Dr Zhen Du, AstraZeneca (China)
- Dr Aurora Diamante, Heptares (Cambridge)
- Mona Furukawa - PhD, University of Oxford
- Dr Sian Stockton, Gifford Bioscience
- Dr Nilesh Chatterjee, St. George's University London and St. George's Hospital
- Dr Juliane Ripka, Cambridge biotech company Phoremost.
- Dr Piyush Chaturbedy,Scientific consultancy company TTP (Cambridge)
- Dr Cynthia Ngozi Okoye,Sygnature Discovery (Nottingham)
- Dr Mohsin Naqvi, Sanger
- Dr Harry King, Bicycle Therapeutics (Cambridge)