Houlston Team
Meet the team
Professor Richard Houlston, FRS
Richard Houlston is the Head of the Division of Genetics and Epidemiology at The Institute of Cancer Research. His research focuses on the identification and characterisation of genetic susceptibility to cancer.
Mahmoud Ahmed
Background: Medicine
Dr Mahmoud Ahmed is working on the genetics of rare childhood cancer.
Sina Beer
Background: Haemato-Oncology
Dr. Sina Beer is a Clinical Research Fellow, focusing on genetic risk factors in multiple myeloma. She is dedicated to this research for a period of two years before completing her Haematology training.
Peter Broderick
Background: Molecular biology
Dr Peter Broderick is the lab manager of the group, and works in organising the samples and equipment, ensuring that everything runs smoothly.
Richard Culliford
Background: Applied statistics
Dr Richard Culliford is a statistician with knowledge of both frequentist and Bayesian statistics. He is working to understand how the incidence of colorectal cancer is affected by both genetic and environmental variables.
Andrea Gunnell
Background: Cell biology
Dr Andrea Gunnell is working on the identification of new predisposition alleles for myeloma through GWAS analysis and molecular genetic functional studies to elucidate biological basis for genetic susceptibility.
Jessica Hislop
Background: Astrophysics
Dr Jessica Hislop is a bioinformatician working in the Cancer Genomics team, with a background in theoretical astrophysics working on simulating star formation in galaxies.
Philip Law
Background: Bioinformatics
Dr Philip Law is a bioinformatician, with a background in plant genetics. He is currently working on understanding germline genetics of colorectal cancer.
Mara Mandelia
Background: Cell biology
Dr Mara Mandelia is a biologist working on charactering the chromatin structure and epigenome of renal cancer.
Charlie Mills
Background: Physics
Dr Charlie Mills is investigating somatic alterations and the immune landscape of cancers using data from the 100,000 Genomes Project.
Janet Nwaoshai
Background: Public Health
Janet Nwaoshai handles the team's administrative and operational functions, and data management
Shalini Singh
Background: Molecular biology
Dr Shalini Singh is currently investigating the molecular mechanism of drug resistance in multiple myeloma using molecular and cell biology techniques.
Jayaram Vijayakrishnan
Background: Molecular genetics
Dr Jayaram Vijayakrishnan is investigating genetic predisposition to cancer. His work involves the use of molecular and cell biology techniques and subsequent bioinformatic analysis of data.
Molly Went
Background: Chemistry
Dr Molly Went completed her PhD in the Houlston Lab, and is currently investigating inherited predisposition to multiple myeloma. Her work involves the identification and characterisation of germline risk variants for myeloma with a view to improve our understanding of pathways relevant to the disease.
Tom Yates
Background: Physics
Dr Tom Yates is a bioinformatician with a background in computational materials physics. He is working on data within the 100,000 Genomes Project.
Giulia Zavagno
Background: Physiology
Dr Giulia Zavagno is investigating the heritability of childhood cancers through functional annotation of associated genetic variants.
Alumni
Steve Bevan (Head of School of Life and Environmental Sciences at University of Lincoln, USA)
Lara Bethke
Lizzy Bourne (Associate Automation Engineer at Exact Sciences, UK)
Ian Chandler
Maria Chiaria Di Bernardo
Dan Chubb (Data scientist at Civil Service, UK)
Alex Cornish (Senior Bioinformatician at BenevolentAI, UK)
Sara Dobbins (Postdoc at St George's Hospital, London, UK)
Victor Enciso (Data Scientist at International Tennis Federation, UK)
Andy Everall
Marc Henrion (Senior Biostatistician at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Malawi)
Phuc Hoang (Postdoc at National Institutes of Health, USA)
Amy Holroyd (Scientific Officer at Institute of Cancer Research, UK)
Richard Hubner (Medical Oncology Consultant at The Christie Hospital, UK)
Matt Frampton
Roland Jäger
Radhika Kandaswamy (Postdoc at King's College London, UK)
Ben Kinnersley (Postdoc at University College London, UK)
Su Kose (Postdoc at Institute of Cancer Research, UK)
Karim Labreche (Bioinformatician at Sorbonne Université, France)
Lily Li (Senior Scientist at Catapult Cell and Gene Therapy, UK)
Oleg Lenive
Steven Lubbe (Assistant Professor of Neurology and Genetic Medicine at Feinberg School of Medicine, USA)
Yussanne Ma (Founder of Yussanne Ma Consulting, Canada)
Sebastian May-Wilson (PhD student at University of Edinburgh, UK)
Gabriele Migliorini (Postdoc at University of Oxford, UK)
Jonathan Mitchell (Genome Analyst at AstraZeneca, UK)
Bianca Olver
Giulia Orlando (Postdoc at Radcliffe Department of Medicine, UK)
Elli Papaemmanuil (Group leader at Memorial Sloan Kettering, USA)
Alan Pittman
Steven Penegar
Amy Price
Sanjay Popat (Professor of Medical Oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital, UK)
Brittany Rex (Operations Manager of the Clinical Research Facility at University of Surrey, UK)
Matthew Rudd
Charlie Saunders (Founder of Wavey Technologies Ltd, UK)
Georgina Sava (Postdoc at Imperial College London, UK)
Gabrielle Sellick
Matt Scales
Amy Sherbourne (Applications Development Scientist, Miltenyi Biotech, USA)
Amit Sud
Dale Crowther-Swanepoel
James Smith (Senior Scientist at Nucleome Therapeutics, UK)
Helen Speedy (Postdoc at MRC Prion unit, UK)
James Studd (Postdoc at Genomics Plc, UK)
Yufei Wang (Statistician at GSK, UK)
Emily Webb (Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)
Ruth Wild
Nicky Whiffin (Group leader at Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, UK)