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Meet the Medicines Discovery Institute Team

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Medicines Discovery Institute Leadership

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Prof Simon Ward

Director, Medicinal Chemistry

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Prof Emyr-Lloyd Evans

Deputy Director, Biology

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Prof John Atack

Director, Pharmacology

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Dr Michael Paradowski

Senior Research Fellow, Operational Lead

Academics and Project Leads

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Dr Marcella Bassetto

Computational chemistry, Antivirals

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Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly

Group Leader, Dementia Research Institute

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Dr Declan Jones

Honorary Innovation Fellow

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Dr Darren LeGrand

Senior Research Fellow, Medicinal Chemistry

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Clinical Fellow, pathogenesis of Huntington's Disease

Dr Georgina Menzies

Lecturer, DNA damage repair

Structural models

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Research Fellow, Neuroscience

Owen Peters.avif

Senior Lecturer, Neurodegenerative diseases

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Dr Michaela Serpi

Lecturer, Medicinal and Synthetic chemistry

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Dr Jennifer Swettenhan

Neuroscience Portfolio Manager

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Dr Helen Waller-Evans

Lecturer, Lysosomal Biology

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Reader, Structural Biology

Dr Natalie Connor -Robson

Research Fellow, Dementia Research Institute

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Dr Heulyn Jones

Lecturer, Medicinal Chemistry

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Dr Mariah Lelos

Reader, Brain Repair in Neurodegeneration

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Dr Youcef Mehellou

Reader, Medicinal Chemistry

Dr Helen Pearson

Cancer biology

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Dr Fabrizio Pertusati

Lecturer, Medicinal Chemistry

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Dr Florian Siebzehnrubl

Senior Lecturer, Stem cell biology, Brain cancer

Dr Gaynor Smith

Senior Lecturer, Dementia Research Institute

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Senior Lecturer, Brain developmental disorders

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Dr Catrin Williams

Lecturer, Infection and Diagnostics

Research Staff

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Dr Alex Ashall-Kelly

Research Associate

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Research Associate

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Research Associate

Miss Gaby Evans

Senior Technician

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Research Associate

Dr Gaia Pasqualetto

Research Associate

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Dr Laia Sadeghi

Research Associate

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Miss Loren Waters

Senior Technician

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Dr Will (Wai) Yu

Research Associate

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Dr Alex Baldwin

Research Associate

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Dr Lawrence Cook

Research Associate

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Dr Karen Elvers

Research Fellow

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Mr Marcus Hanley

Research Associate

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Dr Saul Michue-Seijas

Research Associate

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Mr Ross Riseley

Research Associate

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Dr Natalia Sawicka

Research Associate

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Dr Rose Wellens

Research Associate

Institute Management

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Mrs Hazel Richards

Senior Technician

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Dr Paul Stroemer

Project Coordinator

Administration Officer

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Mrs Samantha Phillips

Senior Technician

Postgraduate Students

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Mr Tom Duffy

Research Student

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Mr Ellis Jones

Research Student

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Miss Gwenno Rowlands

Research Student

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Mrs Sian Gardiner

Research Student

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Miss Lois Lewis

Research Student

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Miss Bethany Tattersdill

Research Student

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