Team members

Team members 2021

Current group 

Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Facility Team:

(https://www.dundee.ac.uk/locations/human-pluripotent-stem-cell-facility)

Dr Lindsay Davidson (Manager)

Dr Margarita Kalamara (Research Assistant)

Co-supervision: 

Ms Sophie Rappich, PhD student (co-supervised with Dr Greg Findlay, MRC PPU)

Ms Namanpreet Kaur, PhD student (with Dr Greg Findlay, MRC PPU)

Ms Shannon Francis, Masters student (with Dr Colin Murdorch, School of Medicine)

Previous group members 

Post-doctoral researchers and current positions 

University of Dundee 2000 -2023 

Dr Aida Rodrigo-Albors, PI, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh

Dr Alwyn Dady, Assistant Professor, University of Créteil, Paris

Dr Ioannis Kasioulis, Research Associate, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge 

Dr Laure Verrier, Research Officer, Marseille Cancer Research Center, France 

Dr Nadege Poncet, Life Sciences project manager, Zurich 

Dr Junfang Song, Post-doctoral research assistant, University of Dundee 

Dr Hidekiyo Harada, Research Scientist at University Health Network, Toronto, Canada 

Dr Zuojun Yue, Post-doctoral research assistant, University of Dundee 

Dr Raman Das, MRC Career Development Fellow, University of Manchester 

Dr Ying Liu, College lecturer, UC Berkeley Extension, California 

Dr Barry Collins, Research Scientist, AstraZeneca R&D, Molndal, Sweden 

Professor Marios Stavridis, Dean of Learning Teaching, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee 

Dr Jun Akai, Veterinary Scientist, Tokyo, Japan 

Dr Isabel Olivera-Martinez, Clinical Trials specialist, Netherlands 

Dr Ruth Diez del Corral, Research associate, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon 

University of Oxford 2000- 1995 

Dr Jennifer Brown, Pathologist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust 

Professor Anne Goriely, Professor, Wetherell InstituteUniversity of Oxford 

Professor Helen Abud, Professor, Monash University, Australia 

Previous graduate students and current positions 

University of Dundee 2020 -2000 

Elisenda Raga-Gil, Tissue Engineering Unit , Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona.

Marco Canizares, post-doctoral researcher, University of Edinburgh 

Adriana Amorim Torres, Laboratory Head, Illumina, San Diego, USA  

Claudia Semprich, Scientific Officer, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge

Nishal Patel, post-doctoral researcher, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA 

Roman Li, Systems Biologist at Eawag, Zurich, Switzerland 

Katherine Fishwick, post-doctoral researcher, University of Western Ontario 

Mariana Delfino-Machin, Programme Manager, Medical Research Council, UK 

Simon Lunn, Senior R&D Manager at Cambrian Biopharma, Cleveland, Ohio 

Arwen Wilcock, Research Manager at The Institute of Leadership and Management, London 

University of Oxford 2000 – 1995 

Dorette Breitkreuz, Programme Director Life Sciences, Molecular and Organismic Biology, Duetsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 

Autumn Rowan, Medical tutor at Wadham College and Lecturer in Anatomy, University of Oxford 

Research support staff

Mrs Pamela Halley, Scientific Officer

Ms Gail Singer, Research assistant