COHORT 2021

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From left to right: Caoimhe Goldrick, Errin Roy, Gabriel Emilio Herrera Oropeza, Charlotte O'Brien Gore, Maja Wojtynska and Ina Guri.

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Charlotte O'Brien Gore
Charlotte O'Brien Gore

I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Biology at The University of Bristol, gaining research experience in a range of areas, including trypanosome parasites in Prof Wendy Gibson’s lab and type 1 diabetes in Prof Kathleen Gillespie’s lab. After briefly considering a career in nutritional sciences, I chose to pursue my interest in autoimmune diseases by undertaking a Master’s in immunology at King’s College London. During my MSc, I worked in Prof Leonie Taams’s lab, investigating IL-17-producing cell types in spondylarthritis. Following my MSc, I took up a research assistant position in Dr Sophie Papa’s lab, investigating T cell exhaustion in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, through the use of CyTOF.

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Ina Guri
Ina Guri

I completed my MEng in Biomedical Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London with my thesis in the lab of Prof Julien Gautrot. I then spent 3 years working in medical device development within the Medical Physics department at the RVI in Newcastle. Here I was awarded an ICURe grant from Innovate UK to act as an entrepreneurial lead on a project to develop a new technology to improve organ transplantation outcomes.

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Maja Wojtynska
Maja Wojtynska

I obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry at Imperial College London. During this time I worked in the lab of Professor Andrea Crisanti, developing genetic engineering techniques for population control of A. gambiae mosquitoes. I further completed an MSc in Neuroscience at Imperial, where I worked with Professor Nicholas Mazarakis on the development of a gene therapy for CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder. My project involved differentiation of astrocytes from patient-derived iPSCs.

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Gabriel Herrera Oropeza
Gabriel Herrera Oropeza

I completed my undergraduate degree in Biotechnology Engineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, and after graduating I worked as a Voluntary Research Intern in the Varela Lab at the Institute of Neurobiology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). I was awarded a scholarship from the Mexican Council of Science and Technology to pursue a master's degree in Neuroscience in Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London (2020-21).

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Caoimhe Goldrick
Caoimhe Goldrick

I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from University College Dublin, Ireland. During this time, I undertook a Wellcome Trust-funded project at UCD in the area of Alzheimer’s Disease, as well as an Erasmus placement at Cambridge University modelling Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease with iPSCs, in the lab of Prof David Rowitch. Following my studies, I became a research assistant at the National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology at Dublin City University. Here, I developed organotypic models of uveal melanoma from primary patient tumours during a post of 18-months. Following this, I moved to London where I took up a research assistant position at KCL, exploring the role of molecular chaperones in iPSC-derived astrocytes in the context of Alzheimer's Disease.

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Errin Roy
Errin Roy

I completed my undergraduate degree in Human Anatomy at the University of Dundee and moved to London in 2019 to obtain my masters in Neuroscience at King’s College London. While completing my MSc I developed a special interest in harnessing the potential of organoids for studying neurodevelopment, and during my thesis developing an open-source high content analysis pipeline to analyse hiPSC-derived gastruloids. Before starting my PhD, I was fortunate enough to experience research out with my niche in the lab of Sibylle Mittnacht at the UCL Cancer Institute, contributing to work on identifying therapeutic vulnerability of RB-1 mutant osteosarcoma to Parp1,2 inhibitors.

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