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Current group members

Chloe Ross-Benham is a PhD student working under the supervision of Adam Nelson, Sheena Radford and Andy Wilson on the discovery and characterisation of small molecule inhibitors of amyloid formation.  She previously obtained her MNatSci degree from the University of Leeds.

Tom French is a PhD student working under the supervision of Adam Nelson, Stuart Warriner and Megan Wright.  His project is collaborative with GSK.  He previously graduated from the University of York and worked at Evotec.

Scott Grossman is a postdoc working under the supervision of Adam Nelson, Megan Wright and Richard Bayliss.  His EPSRC-funded project focuses on lysine-directed probes for protein kinases.

Jenny Miles is a postdoc working under the supervision of Richard Bayliss, Megan Wright and Adam Nelson.  Her EPSRC-funded project focuses on lysine-directed probes for protein kinases.

Hannah Botterill is a PhD student working under the supervision of Adam Nelson, Steve Marsden and Stuart Warriner. Her project is collaborative with Exscientia.  She is a graduate from the University of Newcastle.

Amrita Date is a postdoc who is supervised by Elton Zeqiraj and Adam Nelson.  She previously undertook her PhD at Imperial College London.

Yunus Sultan-Marzouq (Marz) is a PhD student working under the supervision of Richard Bayliss, Adam Nelson and Helen Matthews (University of Sheffield).  His project focuses on molecular mechanisms involving protein kinases.

George Wade is a PhD student working under the supervision of Adam Nelson, Megan Wright and Richard Bayliss. His project focuses on probes for protein kinases.  He is a natural sciences graduate from the University of Leeds.

Lucy Burnett is a PhD student working under the supervision of Adam Nelson, Megan Wright and Stuart Warriner. Her project focuses on stereoprobes for protein kinases. She previously obtained her MNatSci degree from the University of Leeds.

Dylan King is a PhD student working under the supervision of Ste Muench and Adam Nelson. His project is collaborative with Syngenta and focuses on in situ structural biology of mitochondrial respiritory chain complexes.  He is a graduate from the University of York.

Former group members

Silvie  Domann, postdoctoral researcher 1999-2002
Michael  Harding, postdoctoral researcher, 1999-2001, moved to Ultrafine (Manchester) than a biotechnology company (Australia)

Robert  Hodgson, PhD student, 1999-2001, moved to University of York.
Joanne  Holland, PhD student, 1999-2001, moved to Millennium Pharmaceuticals.
Chrissie  Carter, PhD student, 1999-2001, moved to school teaching then Royal Society of Chemistry.

Steve  Bartlett, PhD student, 2000-2003, moved to University of Bath then DSTL.
Neetu  Kaushal, PhD student, 2000-2004, moved to NPIL Pharma.
Gavin  Williams, PhD student 2000-2003 then postdoctoral researcher 2003-2006, moved to University of Wisconsin (Thorson lab).  Now a professor at North Carolina State University.

Ben  Whittaker, PhD student, 2001-2004, moved to University of Nottingham then Biofocus.
Thomas  Woodhall, PhD student, 2001-2004.
Alexis  Perry, PhD student, 2001-2004, moved to University of York then University of Sydney, now an academic at University of Exeter.
Alan  Ironmonger, PhD student, 2001-2004, moved to GSK.
Blandine  Clique, postdoctoral researcher 2001-2004, moved to Biofocus then GSK.

Mark  Anstiss, PhD student, 2002-2005.
Tamara  Belyaeva, postdoctoral researcher, 2002-2004.

Claire  Crawford, PhD student, 2003-2007, moved to GSK.
Karen  Dodd, PhD student, 2003-2007, moved to Covance.
Chris  Cordier, PhD student, 2003-2007, moved to University of Cambridge then MIT then Imperial College London.
Stephen  Worden, postdoctoral researcher, 2004-2005.

Lorna  Farnsworth, PhD student, 2004-2008.
Matthew  Edmundson, PhD student, 2004-2008.
Catherine  Joce, PhD student, 2004-2008, moved to University of Colorado then Royal Society of Chemistry then British Antarctic Survey then Cambridge Consultants.
Amanda  Bolt, PhD student, 2004-2008, moved to University of Sydney, now a clinical biochemist.

Catherine  O'Leary-Steele, PhD student, 2005-2009, moved to LHASA.
Rebecca  White, PhD student, 2005-2009.
Stuart  Leach, PhD student, 2005-2009, moved to GSK.
Teresa  Damiano, postdoctoral researcher, 2005-2008, moved to Sanofi.
Gordon  McKiernan, postdoctoral researcher, 2005-2006, moved to NPIL Pharma.
Daniel  Morton, postdoctoral researcher, 2005-2008, moved to State University of New York (Davis group).

Tom  Harman, PhD student, 2005-2009.
Jon  Shepherd, postdoctoral researcher, 2006-2008, moved to Lilly.
Louise  Horsfall, postdoctoral researcher, 2006-2009, moved to Glasgow University, now a professor at University of Edinburgh.
Ieuan  Davies, postdoctoral researcher, 2006-2009, moved to a biotechnology company.

Adrian  Fowkes, PhD student, 2006-2010, moved to LHASA.
Angela  Kinnell, PhD student, 2006-2010, now a clinical biochemist.
Sarah  Murrison, PhD student, 2006-2010, moved to GSK.
Joachim  Horn, postdoctoral researcher, 2008-2011, moved to a pharmaceutical company (Switzerland).
Jackie  Ouzman, postdoctoral researcher, 2008-2009.

Martin  Fisher, PhD student, 2007-2011, moved to University of Cambridge then Domainex.
Paolo  Tosatti, PhD student, 2007-2011, moved to University of Basel then Novartis.
Nicole  Timms, PhD student, 2007-2011, moved to Imperial Consultants, now a deputy headteacher.
Ramkrishna  Bkasa, postdoctoral researcher, 2007, moved to Institute for Cancer Therapeutics.

Adam  Daniels, PhD student, 2008-2012, now a vet.
Ho Yin (John)  Li, PhD student, 2008-2012.
Mark  Dow, PhD student, 2008-2012 then postdoctoral researcher 2012-2017, moved to AstraZeneca.
Francesco  Marchetti, postdoctoral researcher, 2008-2011.

Tom   James, PhD student, 2009-2013 then postdoctoral researcher 2016-2019, moved to AstraZeneca.
Jennifer  Stockwell, PhD student, 2009-2013, moved to Sygnature.
Charles-Hugues  Lardeau, PhD student, 2008-2012, moved to University of Vienna then AstraZeneca.
Alun  Myden, PhD student, 2009-2013, moved to LHASA.
Giorgia  Magnatti, PhD student, 2009-2013.
Sushil  Maurya, postdoctoral researcher, 2009-11.
Sophie  Gore, postdoctoral researcher, 2009-11.
Paul  MacLellan, postdoctoral researcher, 2011-2012, moved to University of Manchester then Nature Publishing Group then Royal Society of Chemistry.
Carlos  Arroniz, postdoctoral researcher, 2012, moved to Queen Mary College then Oxford University.
George  Karageorgis, PhD student 2011-15,  moved to Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, postdoctoral researcher 2018-2020, moved to AstraZeneca.
Daniel  Foley, PhD student 2012-16, moved to Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, now an academic at University of Canterbury (New Zealand).
Heather  Martin, postdoctoral researcher, 2010-2011.

Hannah  Kyle, PhD student, 2011-2015, moved to Avacta Life Sciences.
Claire  Windle, PhD student, 2011-2015, now a patent lawyer.
Sasha  Derrington, PhD student, 2011-2015, moved to University of Manchester.
George   Burslem, PhD student, 2011-2015, moved to Yale University, now an Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania.
Steven  Kane, PhD student, 2011-2015, moved to LHASA.
Richard  Doveston, postdoctoral researcher, 2012-2015, moved to Eindhoven Technical University, now an academic at University of Leicester.
Marion  Muller, postdoctoral researcher, 2014-2016.
Rajkumar  Sundaram, postdoctoral researcher, 2013-2015.
Philip  Craven, postdoctoral researcher, 2013-2016, now an academic at University of Birmingham.
Anthony  Aimon, postdoctoral researcher, 2013-2016, moved to Diamond Light Source.
Ignacio  Colomer Utrera, postdoctoral researcher, 2013-2014, moved to University of Oxford.
James  Firth, postdoctoral researcher, 2013-2017, moved to University of York.

Rong  Zhang, PhD student, 2013-2017, moved to Aptuit then Evotec.
Robert  Smith, PhD student, 2013-2017.

Joan  Mayol Llinas, PhD student, 2014-2018, moved to University of Cambridge then University of Hong Kong then Domainex.
James  Clayton, postdoctoral researcher, 2014-2016, moved to University of Oxford.
James  Howard, postdoctoral researcher, 2015-2016, moved to position in Australia.
Tom  Ackrill, postdoctoral researcher, 2015-2017, moved to Sygnature.
Christopher  Rundell, postdoctoral researcher, 2015-2016, moved to Albany Molecular Research then Sygnature.
Haitham  Hassan, postdoctoral researcher, 2015-2016, moved to University of Paris Descartes then Institute Pasteur then University of Newcastle.

Jacob  Masters, PhD student, 2015-2019, moved to 4D Pharma then WG Partners.
Bobby  Lowe, PhD student, 2015-2019, now a software engineer.
Alex  Moloney, PhD student, 2015-2019 moved to Tocris.
Emily  Turri, PhD student, 2015-2019.

Samuel Liver, PhD student, 2015-2019 then high-throughput discovery laboratoary manager (Rosalind Franklin Institute) then Exscientia.
Shiao  Chow, postdoctoral researcher, 2016-2018, moved to University of Edinburgh; now leads a research group at University of Strathclyde.
Naim  Stiti, postdoctoral researcher, 2016-2019.
Katherine  Horner, postdoctoral researcher, 2016-2017, moved to University of Manchester.

Kristina  Parashiv, PhD student, 2016-2020, now works for Keracol.
Adam  Green, PhD student, 2016-2020, moved to University of Pennsylvania then CHARM therapeutics.
Chloe  Townley, PhD student, 2016-2020, moved to Astex then Exscientia.
Ephraim  Okolo, PhD student, 2016-2020, moved to Sygnature.
Scott  Rice, PhD student, 2016-2020, moved to AstraZeneca.

Matthew  Foulkes, postdoctoral researcher, 2016-2019, moved to AstraZeneca.
Alexandre  Trindade, postdoctoral researcher, 2017-2020, moved to Pharmaron.
Som  Dutt, postdoctoral researcher, 2017-2018.

Luke  Trask, PhD student, 2017-2021, moved to AstraZeneca.
Abbie  Leggott, PhD student, 2017-2021, moved to Syngenta.
Emily  Faulkner, PhD student, 2017-2021, moved to University of Cambridge then Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
Andrew  Gomm, postdoctoral researcher, 2018-2020, moved to Syngenta.
Sergio  Celis, postdoctoral researcher, 2018-2020, moved to University of Manchester.
Aisha  Syed, postdoctoral researcher, 2018-2021, moved to University of Dundee.

Sannia Farooque, postdoctoral researcher, 2021-2022, moved to academic position at University of York then University of Bradford.

Chris Arter, PhD student, 2017-2021 then high-throughput discovery laboratoary manager (Rosalind Franklin Institute) then Zinsser.
Dan Francis, postdoctoral researcher, 2018-2020 and 2021-22 then Sygnature.
Jack White, PhD student 2018-2022, moved to Real Chemistry then Hamell.

Alex Hindle, PhD student, 2019-2023 moved to AstraZeneca.
Jack Herbert, PhD student, 2019-2022 moved to University of Newcastle

Sam Griggs, postdoctoral researcher, 2018-2023 (at University of Leeds and Rosalind Franklin Institute), moved to BenevolentAI then Insmed Innovation UK.

Stefan Lohmann, postdoctoral researcher, 2022-25 (at Rosalind Franklin Institute)

Bimod Thapa, postdoctoral researcher, 2023-25 (at Rosalind Franklin Institute)

Sofia Piticari, postdoctoral researcher, 2022-25 (at Rosalind Franklin Institute), moved to Imperial College London

Niamh Morris, PhD student, 2021-2025, moved to Recursion

Brian Suarez Mantilla, postdoctoral researcher, 2023-36, moved to another position at University of Leeds

Julian Chesti, PhD student 2021-2025 then postdoctoral researcher 2025-2026, moved to the Francis Crick Institute, London

Key collaborators

Mark Basham, Rosalind Franklin Institute

Liang Wu, Rosalind Franklin Institute

Herbert Waldmann and Sonja Sievers , Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund

Stuart  Warriner, Astbury Centre, University of Leeds
Steve  Marsden, Astbury Centre, University of Leeds

Andy Wilson, University of Birmingham
Richard  Bayliss, Astbury Centre, University of Leeds

Megan Wright, Astbury Centre, University of Leeds

Sheena Radford, Astbury Centre, University of Leeds

Elton Zeqiraj, Astbury Centre, University of Leeds

Ste Muench, Astbury Centre, University of Leeds