Director
Prof Roger Barker
University of Cambridge
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Prof Roger Barker, University of Cambridge
DirectorRoger Barker is Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Honorary Consultant in Neurology at the University of Cambridge and at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. He trained at Oxford and London and has been in his current position since 2000, after completing an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship.
Roger combines basic research looking at novel therapies to treat chronic neurodegenerative disorders of the brain with clinically-based work aimed at better defining such disorders. He is the co-ordinator of the TRANSEURO project looking at fetal cell grafting in patients with early Parkinson’s Disease and is part of the GFORCE PD initiative as well as Director of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.
Dr Zoe Hewitt, University of Sheffield
Project Manager+44 (0)114 2222355
Deputy Director
Dr Cedric Ghevaert
University of Cambridge
Project Manager
Dr Zoe Hewitt
University of Sheffield
Co-Investigators
University of Cambridge
Dr Florian Merkle
University of Cambridge
Dr Serena Nik-Zainal
Loughborough University
Prof Rob Thomas
University of Sheffield
Dr Ivana Barbaric
Research Teams
University of Cambridge
Dr Venkat Pisupati, Barker/Merkle Labs
Dr Shaline Fazal, Barker Lab
Loughborough University
Dr Preeti Holland, Thomas Lab
Cathy Beltran-Rendon, Thomas Lab
University of Sheffield
Dr Christopher Price, Barbaric Lab
Dr Dylan Stavish, Barbaric Lab
Dr Duncan Baker
Clinical Scientist,
Sheffield Diagnostic Genetics Service
Owen Laing, Barbaric Lab
Theo Wing, Barbaric Lab
Research Team Alumni
Babraham Institute
Dr Maria Rostovskaya, Reik Lab
Dr Yang Cao, Schoenfelder Lab
University of Cambridge
Dr Moyra Lawrence, Ghevaert Lab
Dr Minjung Song, Merkle Lab
Dr Benjamin Vallin, Kuan Lab
Loughborough University
Dr Hanif Ghanbar, Thomas Lab
PSEC Co-Investigator Alumni
Babraham Institute
co-PI
Prof Wolf Reik
Wolf is now Director of the Altos Labs, Cambridge Science Institute.
Loughborough University
co-PI
Dr Mark McCall
Mark is now Quality Management Systems (QMS) and Operations Compliance Manager at Norbrook Laboratories ltd
University of Sheffield
co-PI
Dr Marta Milo
Marta is now the Research Data Science Leader at Astra Zeneca
UKRI/Rutherford Fund Fellow Alumni
Dr Stefan Schoenfelder
Stefan is now a Babraham Institute Career Progression Fellow within the Epigenetics Department and co-founder of the biotech/functional genomics spinout Enhanc3D Genomics.
Dr Wei-Li Kuan
Wei-Li is now a Principal Scientist at Talisman Therapeutics, developing iPSC-derived neuronal models to screen drug candidates with therapeutic potential for Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr Ferdinand von Meyenn
Ferdinand is now an Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich
