Participants 2025 - 2026
Cohort 1
Dr Adam Cribbs - Associate Professor, NDORMS
Charlotte Bell - Program Director – Industry Liaison in Experimental Medicine, NDORMS
Deepak Kumar - Head of Translational Research Office, MSDO
Professor Huiling Tan - Professor of Human Electrophysiology and Neuromodulation, NDCN
Dr Jasmina Kapetanovic - MRC Clinician Scientist and Consultant Vitreo-Retinal Surgeon, NDCN
Dr Joris Hemelaar - Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant Obstetrician, NDPH
Dr Lisa Heather - BHF Intermediate Fellow and Associate Professor, DPAG
Liz Covey-Crump - Senior Business Partnerships Manager, MSDO
Dr Neda Taghinejadi - Clinical Tutor, WRH
Dr Nicholas Provine - Wellcome Career Development Fellow, NDM
Philip McDonald - Research Grants and Contracts Manager, Experimental Psychology
Dr Pietro Luca Ratti - Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Consultant Neurologist, NDCN
Dr Rachel Pechey - Associate Professor, NDPCHS
Raquel Lopez Ramon - Research Matron, NDM
Dr Roisin Mooney - Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Psychiatry
Professor Sarah Snelling - Professor of Musculoskeletal Science, NDORMS
Professor Simon de Lusignan - Professor of Primary Care and Clinical Informatics, NDPCHS
Wanda Groenewald - Deputy Divisional Financial Controller, MSDO
Cohort 2
Dr Andrea Reinecke - Associate Professor and Research Psychologist, Psychiatry
Angela Garrett - Head of Operations: Diabetes Trials Unit, RDM
Dr Brian Nicholson - Associate Professor: Diagnosis and Cancer in Primary Care, NDPCHS; Oncology
Dr Claire Keene - Researcher and Deputy Director of the MSc HSIE, NDM
Professor Deborah Gill - Professor of Gene Medicine and Head of NDCLS, RDM
Dr Emily Bongard - Head of Operations (PC-CTU), NDPCHS
Dr Fränze Progatzky - Principal Investigator in Tissue Biology and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, NDORMS
Ivana Ilić - Head of Finance, NDORMS
Professor John Christianson - Professor of Cell Biology and Cancer Research UK Senior Research Fellow, NDORMS
Professor Leanne Hodson - Professor of Metabolic Physiology, RDM
Lee-Anne Stork - NDCLS Business Manager, RDM
Dr Maxime Taquet - Associate Professor and Specialty Registrar, Psychiatry
Dr Nicola Whiffin - Associate Professor and Wellcome Career Development Fellow, NDM
Dr Odile Harrison - Associate Professor, NDPH
Professor Ole Jensen - Chair of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology
Dr Pablo F. Céspedes - Group Leader and Career Development Fellow at CAMS COI, NDM
Professor Rachel Upthegrove - Professor of Psychiatry, Director NIHR Oxford Health BRC, Psychiatry
Professor Rafal Bogacz - Professor of Computational Neuroscience, NDCN
Dr Tim Viney - Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology
Tracy Tompkins - HAF, Experimental Psychology
Cohort 3
Andrew Allan - Head of Facilities Management, Biochemistry
Professor Andrew Sharott - Professor of Neuroscience & MRC Investigator, NDCN
Dr Barbara Zonta - Teaching Oversight Manager and MSc Course Director, Pharmacology
Professor Brian Marsden - Professor of Practice in Data Management & Research Informatics, NDM
Claire Shingler - Business Manager, Bioescalator, MSDO
Professor David Ray - Professor of Endocrinology, Head of OCDEM, RDM
Dawn Bevan - Head of HR, Biochemistry
Dr Graham Blackman - NIHR Clinical Lecturer, Psychiatry
Dr Helen Barron - Associate Professor and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, NDCN
Dr Jethro Johnson - Innovation Track Principal Investigator and OCMS Deputy Director, NDORMS
Louise Cotterell - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager, DPAG; Dunn School of Pathology
Professor Pedro Carvalho - EP Abraham Professor in Cell Biology, Dunn School of Pathology
Professor Peijun Zhang - Professor of Structural Biology, NDM
Professor Peter Magill - Professor of Neurobiology and Deputy Director of MRC BNDU, NDCN
Dr Robert McCutcheon - Associate Professor and Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellow, Psychiatry
Professor Simon Kyle - Professor of Experimental and Clinical Sleep Research, NDCN
Professor Sophie Park - Professor of Primary Care and Clinical Education & Deputy HoD, NDPCHS
