Alumni
Former members of the Towers Lab and the next step of their careers.
Dr Katsia Bichel
Postdoc for 3 years until January 2018. Went on to work in the lab of Prof Peijun Zhang at Oxford University.
Dr Caroline Blondeau
Post doc from 2008-2013. Went on to her second post-doc in the Virology-Immunology lab integrated into the GIGA institut (Interdisciplinary group of applied genoproteomic) in Liege University.
Dr Che Colpitts
Postdoc for 3 years until 2019. Went on to Queens University, Ontario, Canada to lead her own group.
Dr Giulia Dowgier
Postdoc from 2021 to 2022. Went on to work in the Crick on SARS-CoV-2.
Dr Carolina Ferriera
Postdoc from 2014 to 2018.
Dr Doug Fink
PhD in 2019. Went on to continue his clinical training.
Dr Adam Fletcher
PhD in 2012 and Postdoc from 2012-2014. Went on to a Postdoc position in the James Lab, LMB Cambridge.
Dr Morten Govasli Larsen
Postdoc from 2018 to 2023. Went to Postdoc position in Bergen Norway.
Dr Lauren Harrison
PhD in 2019.
Dr Laura Hilditch
PostDoc for 4 years until 2016. Went on to work as a medical writer at Articulate Science.
Dr David Ho
PhD student until 2017. Went on to pursue his clinical career.
Dr Isobel Honeyborne
Postdoc from 2014 to 2018. Went on to a Research Associate position at the Royal Free, UCL.
Dr Zuzanna Keckesova
PhD 2007. Went on to a postdoc position in the Weinberg lab at MIT and now leads her own research group.
Dr Claire Kerridge
PhD from 2015-2018. Went on to a Postdoc position with Prof Stuart Neil at King's College London.
Dr Hataf Khan
PhD from 2016-2019. Went on to a Postdoc position with Prof. Mike Malim at King's College London.
Dr Jaskaren Kohli
Postdoc from 2021-2023. Now starting lectureship at Leeds University.
Dr Rob Lever
PhD until 2022. Left to return to clinical practice.
Dr Rich Miles
PhD from 2013-2017. Postdoc from 2017-2021. Went on to pursue a career in law.
Dr Chris Monit
Postdoc from 2016-2019. Now works at Kheiron Medical Technologies.
Dr Ilaria Nisoli
Technician from 2019 to 2021. Went to a Senior Technician position with Prof Piero Carninci at the Human Technopole, Milan.
Dr Ethel Owusu
Postdoc from 2019 to 2021. Went on to work with CQUIN and the NHS.
Dr Claire Pardieu
Postdoc from 2007-2010. Went on to a postdoc position in the Drobniewski lab at Queen Mary’s London.
Dr Tom Peacock
Postdoc from 2016-2018. Went on to Postdoc with Prof. Wendy Barclay at Imperial College.
Dr Stephen Perry
PhD student from 2016 to 2019. Now works at Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult.
Dr Sarah Petit
Postdoc from 2009-2012. Went on to become a scientific writer at Parexel, in their Consulting and medical communications department.
Dr Jane Rasaiyaah
Postdoc for 7 years until 2016. Went on to work with Dr Waseem Qasim at ICH.
Dr Sophie Ridewood
Postdoc from 2019-2021. Went on to work as Opportunities Assessment Group Analyst at LifeArc.
Dr Maria Teresa Rodriguez-Plata
Postdoc for 3 years. Went on to work at Tusk Therapeutics on immunotherapies against cancer.
Dr Jo Rowley
PhD in 2015. Went on to work on an HIV awareness project in Zimbabwe with ICS and then to patent law.
Dr Torsten Schaller
PhD 2009 and postdoc from 2009-2011. Went on to a postdoc position in the Malim lab at Kings College London. Now leads his own research group.
Dr Rebecca Sumner
Postdoc from 2014 to 2020. Went on to Maluquer de Motes Lab at University of Surrey.
Dr Choon Ping Tan
Postdoc for 5 years until 2016. Went on to work at Kymab.
Dr Ying Ying Tan
Postdoc from 2021 to 2023. Now working at T-Therapeutics in Cambridge.
Dr Lucy Thorne
Postdoc from 2015 to 2023. Went on to run her own lab at Imperial College London.
Dr Chris Tie
PhD student in Rowe Lab until 2017. Went on to a postdoctoral position in the Rowe Lab, UCL.
Justin Warne
Senior Scientist for 6 years until 2018. Went on to work at the ICR in Sutton.
Dr Ben Webb
Postdoc from 2003-2008.
Dr Sam Wilson
Postdoc from 2006-2008. Went on to postdoctoral position with Paul Bieniasz at Rockefeller University and now leads his own research group.
Dr Maorong Xie
Postdoc from 2019 to 2024. Went on to a Postdoc position at University of York.
Laura Ylinen
Research assistant from 2003-2008.
Dr Lorena Zuliana-Alvarez
Postdoc from 2016-2020. Went to QCRG to project manage the QBI coronavirus research consortium at UCSF.
Visiting and summer student alumni
For our visiting and summer student alumni, see our visiting students and work experience.
Visiting students
