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Scientific Team
Our Scientific Team is a unique mix of clinicians and scientists who are working together on a combined strategy to find better patient treatments and better outcomes for our brain tumour patients.
Mr Kevin O’Neill
Consultant Neurosurgeon and Head of Neurosurgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
Dr Nelofer Syed
Research Lecturer at Imperial College London (Brain Sciences Division)
Dr Amin Hajitou
Lecturer in Cancer Gene Therapy
Department of Medicine, Imperial College London
Professor Michael Johnson
Deputy Head, Centre for Clinical Translation, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
Dr Kambiz Alavian
Non-Clinical Lecturer, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
Mr Babar Vaqas
George Pickard Clinical Research Fellow in Neurosurgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Research team past & present: John Fulcher Molecular Neuro-oncology Laboratory
John DeFelice (lab manager), Dr Julianna Stylianou (post-doctoral scientist), Dr Nabil Haji (senior research associate)
Dr Combiz Khozoie –Senior post-doctoral fellow (Barrow Foundation Feb 2014- Jan 2017), Tsz Chau (Wing) – reseach assistant
Dr Ming Sun and Heidi Gibbons: technical staff for Phase I set-up
Dr Fernando Abaitua and Dr Boling Qiao: Post-doctoral fellows for Phase II development
PhD students & their projects
Julia Langer – Corrado Grassini PhD (April 2012-Aug 2016). Metabolic profiling of ASS-ve and ASS+ve GBM
Alexander Renziehousen – Barrow Foundation (Feb 2014-June 2017). Angiotensin signalling in GBM : a novel therapeutic target
Richard Perryman – MRC (October 2014-Dec 2017). The role of Nicotamide metabolism in the chemosensitivity of GBM
MSc project students
Alexander Renziehausen – 2013
Kevin Lee – 2013
Zeng Qingu – 2016
Jessica Preston – 2016
Aithne Atkinbson – 2017
BSc project students
Jessica Santivanez – 2012
Charlotte Lees – 2012
Adrianna Karras – 2013
Huma Khaliq – 2013
Sophie Glover – 2016*
*Sophie obtained the highest mark for her Neuroscience BSc project undertaken in our lab and has been Nominated for the Evelyn de Rothschild Project Prize 2016. Only 3 nominations get put forward from the Dept of Medicine.