Group Leader
Graham Ladds PhD FBPhS
Professor in Receptor Pharmacology and fellow of St John’s college. Fellow of the British Pharmacological society
Email: grl30@cam.ac.uk
Twitter: @GpcrL
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Dr David Prole
David studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge before exploring the structure and function of K
Email: dp350@cam.ac.uk
Dr Abigail Pearce
Abi is a BBSRC funded post doc and studying agonist bias at Adenosine receptors. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge, and before beginning her PhD in 2018. She completed her PhD in 2022 and now studies all aspect of G protein-bias at GPCRs.
Email: ap847@cam.ac.uk
Twitter: @abi_pearce96
Dr Aneesh Chandra
Lab Manager
Dr Emily Taylor
Emily read biological sciences at the University of East Anglia and completed her PhD in plant pathology at Nottingham University. After postdoctoral work in Brazil, she held senior scientific posts in molecular plant pathology at the NIAB in Cambridge. Emily joined the department in 2002 as a lab manager. She has specific skills in molecular biology, immunomethods and high-throughput analyses of Ca2+ signalling. Her present research is concerned with the role of KRAP and its interactions with IP3R in intracellular Ca2+ and signalling in human cell lines. Email: ejat2@cam.ac.uk.
Graduate students
Jing Li
Jing is a PhD student funded by the Cambridge Trust and Newnham College Scholarship. Her work is investigating the role of alternative proteins in GPCR signal transduction. By applying microscopy and molecular biology methods, she focuses specifically on how alt prots impact IP3Rs and Ca2+ function.
Ms Claudia Sisk
Claudia is a PhD student funded by Cambridge Trust and Gonville & Caius College. She completed her undergraduate degree in bioengineering at Clemson University before starting her PhD in 2022. Her research looks into profiling the activation pathways of P2Y receptors and their effects on inflammation and platelet aggregation.
Email: cms226@cam.ac.uk
Twitter: @cleerdia
Mr Matthew Rosa
Matt is a PhD student funded by AstraZeneca. He completed his Undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Aberdeen, before starting his PhD in 2020. He looks at the family 1 taste receptors, specifically those contributing to ‘sweet’ chemosensing, and how these can be tuned in order to develop a glucose biosensor.
Email: mr857@cam.ac.uk
Mr Theo Redfern-Nichols
Theo is a BBSRC iCASE PhD student at Wolfson College, in partnership with AstraZeneca. He completed his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge before beginning his PhD in 2020. He is interested in GPCR bias signalling. Specifically, Theo is investigating the Calcitonin Receptor-like Receptor (CLR) and its interactions with receptor activity modifying proteins (RAMPs).
Email: tr428@cam.ac.uk
Mr Edward Wills
Ned is a PhD student funded through the EPSRC Sensor CDT by AstraZeneca. After completing his MSci in Neuroscience at University College London, he studied an MRes in Sensor Technologies here at Cambridge before beginning his PhD in 2021. Ned aims to develop novel molecular biosensors for intracellular GPCR signalling pathways, with a focus on high throughput drug screening.
Email: ehw34@cam.ac.uk
Lab alumni
Post-2010
Dr Xainglin Huang, former PhD student, now in the Roth lab
Dr Matt Harris, former PhD student, and post doc, now at Nxera Pharma
Dr Anna Suchankova, former PhD student, now at Bicycle
Dr Liliya Kopanitsa, former post-doctoral visitor
Ms Sabrina Carvalho, former PhD student, currently a Research Scientist at AstraZeneca
Dr Kerry Barkan, former post-doc and PhD student, currently a Research Scientist at Sosei Heptares
Dr Ashley Clark, former PhD student
Dr Ho Yan Yeung, former PhD student, currently a post-doc at Copenhagen University
Mr Hitoshi Yamauchi, former MPhil student
Dr Ian Winfield, former post-doc and PhD student, currently Team Leader at Domainex
Dr Alex Esparza-Franco, former PhD student, currently Scientific Officer at Micropathology Ltd
Dr Cathryn Weston, post-doc and PhD student, currently Career Development Fellow for Asthma UK, University of Leicester
Dr Catherine Richardson, former PhD student, currently Associate Consultant, Healthcare
Dr Anthony Knight, former PhD student, left Science to become an accountant
Pre-2010
Ms Jannette Bennett
Dr Wayne Croft
Dr Antonio Lock
Dr Louise Godfrey
Dr Benjamin Smith
Dr Claire Hill
Dr Rachel Forfar