Loke CTR Core Staff
Chief Laboratory Research Technician, Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research
Licensing Manager, Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research
Principal Investigators
Director, Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research
Mary Marshall and Arthur Walton Professor of Reproductive Physiology
Co-Chair, Strategic Research Initiative in Reproduction
Academic Clinical Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Primate Embryogenesis, Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research
Sir Henry Dale Fellow
Professor of Reproductive biology
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Professor of Immunology
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Associate Professor in Reproductive Biology
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics
Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of Cambridge
Professor of Developmental Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Director of Studies in Medicine, Gonville & Caius College
Group Leader, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
2018 Next Generation Fellow
Group leader, Epigenetics, Babraham Institute
PI, BHF Senior Basic Science Research Fellow
VPD-Heart and Lung Research Institute, Department of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Professor of Metabolic Physiology
Institute of Metabolic Sciences
Tenure Track Group Leader
Associate Professor in Developmental Genetics
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (PDN) and Dept of Genetics
Group leader, Epigenetics, Babraham Institute
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
University Professor in Fetal and Placental Physiology
Principal Investigator, PDN
Director of Studies in Pre-clinical Medicine
Associate Lecturer in Department of Pathology
Head of Department
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Director of Germline and Epigenomics Research
Member of the Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Department
Lecturer in Reproductive Biology
Lister Research Prize Fellow
Affiliate Principal Investigator
Consultant, Gynaecology
Professor of Reproductive Biology
Joint Head of Department
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Professor and Academic Lead (Genomics), Department of Pathology
University Lecturer
University Lecturer
MRC Fellow
Junior group leader - visiting scientist (Cambridge)
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology
University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry
Group Leader, Gurdon Institute and Department of Genetics
Herchel Smith Chair in Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Head of the Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) physics group
Fellow of St. John's College, University of Cambridge
Next Generation Fellows (NGFs)
Next Generation Fellow (2022)
Affiliated to the Physiology Society and the Quadram Institute Bioscience.
Next Generation Fellow (2024)
Graduate Students
PhD student
Supervisor: Stephen O'Rahilly
Graduate Student, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Supervisor: Kathy Niakan
Graduate Student, Dept Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Supervisor: Thorsten Boroviak
Graduate Student, Newnham College - Loke CTR PhD Studentship 2023
Supervisors: Geula Hanin, Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
Graduate Student, Loke CTR PhD Studentship 2022
Supervisors: Catherine Aiken and Sue Ozanne
Graduate student, Department of Pathology
McGovern lab
MPhil Student
Hanin Lab, PDN
Visiting PhD researcher
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Graduate Student, Department of Pathology
Graduate Student, Cellular Genetics - Wellcome Sanger Institute
Supervisor: Roser Vento-Tormo
Graduate Student, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Murray Lab
Graduate Student, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Supervisor: Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
Medical Student, Dept Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Supervisor: Professor Steve Charnock-Jones
Graduate student
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Rosello-Diez
Graduate Student, Department of Pathology
Loke CTR PhD Studentship 2024
Cambridge International & Newnham College Scholarship
Supervisors: Naomi McGovern and Emma Poole
Graduate Student, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Supervisor: Erica Watson
Visiting postgraduate student, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Host: Catherine Aiken
Graduate Medical Student, Clinical School of Medicine
Supervisor: Catherine Aiken
Graduate Student, Newnham College - Loke CTR PhD Studentship 2025
Supervisors: Miguel Constancia, Sue Ozanne
Graduate Student, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Supervisor: Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
Graduate Student, Loke CTR-Sir Robert Edwards Churchill College PhD studentship 2023
Supervisors: Kathy Niakan, Thorsten Boroviak
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Johnson Woodman-Loke CTR PhD Studentship 2024
Supervisors: Dr Courtney Hanna and Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
MPhil Student, Gurdon Institute/Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Supervisor: Dr Geraldine Jowett
Graduate Student, Newnham College, Dept Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Supervisor: Irving Aye
PhD student, Babraham Institute
Rugg-Gunn Group
Visiting Scholar
PhD / MD
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
PhD student
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Professor Steve Charnock-Jones
Graduate Student, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Supervisor: Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
Research Associates / Assistants
Research Associate
Department of Biochemistry
Hollfelder Group
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept. of Pathology; Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Research Groups: Naomi McGovern, Catherine Aiken
Research Associate
Hannon laboratory
Cancer Research UK – Cambridge Institute
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Hanin Lab
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Post-doctoral Research Scientist, The Babraham Institute
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Rugg-Gunn Lab
Babraham Institute, Epigenetics Division
Research Assistant, Department of Pathology (McGovern lab)
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Research Associate, Boroviak Group
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Research Associate, Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Aiken lab)
Research Associate
Professor Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri’s lab
Dept of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience
Senior Research Laboratory Technician
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Senior Research Scientist
Research group: Peter Rugg-Gunn
Babraham Epigenetics Department
Research Associate, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, IMS -Metabolic Research Laboratories
Senior Research Associate, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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Senior Research Associate in Bioinformatics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology Department, University of Cambridge
Research Associate
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Aye Lab)
Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Prof. Gordon Smith and Prof. Steve Charnock-Jones
Research Associate
PDN, (Bill Colledge and Erica Watson)
Postdoctoral researcher
Epigenetics Programme, Babraham Institute
Kelsey group
Clinical Lecturer, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Gordon Smith Group
Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, Gurdon Institute
Prof Azim Surani and Prof Ewa Paluch
Senior staff scientist, Vento-Tormo Lab
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Research Associate, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (Prof Gordon Smith)
Postdoctoral researcher
Twigger Group
Department of Biochemistry/Department of Pharmacology
Postdoctoral fellow, Vento-Tormo laboratory
Royal Society sponsored Daphne Jackson Fellow
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Research fellow
Sferruzzi-Perri Lab
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Hanna group
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Niakan group
Senior Research Associate
Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry
Baron-Cohen group and APEX consortium
Visiting Researcher - Sferruzzi-Perri Lab
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Staff Scientist, Cellular Genetics – Wellcome Sanger Institute (Vento-Tormo laboratory)
Senior Research Associate
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Prof Charnock-Jones research group
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience
Alumni
Former Bioinformatics Manager, Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research
Former Next Generation Fellow and Co-founder/director of CamBioScience Limited
Graduate Student, CTR PhD Studentship 2020
Former CTR Graduate student
Former Laboratory Manager, CTR
Research Assistant
Former CTR Graduate Student
Former Post Doc, Babraham Institute
Former Senior Research Associate and head of CTR Bioinformatics Facility
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Former Graduate Student, CTR
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Former CTR Graduate Student
Former graduate Student, Department of Pathology
Former CTR Next Generation Fellow
Former CTR Next Generation Fellow
Former Graduate Student
Senior Postdoc Scientist
Senior Scientist Altos Labs Cambridge Institute
Former Graduate Student, CTR
Graduate Student, CTR
Honorary Members
Dorothy Havemeyer McConville Professor of Equine Medicine
Reader at Queen Mary University of London
Former NGF
Next Generation Fellow (2017)
Assistant Professor Van Andel Institute (VAI)
Mary Marshall and Arthur Walton Professor of the Physiology of Reproduction (retired)
Director of Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research (Retired)
Royal Society Fellow
CTR Scientific Advisory Board Chair, 2021-2024
CTR Scientific Advisory Board Member, 2014-2021
Chair in Reproductive Medicine, University of Edinburgh
Consultant Gynaecologist at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh
Former, Head of Deanery of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Former Co-Director, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health
President, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
Adjunct Professor, University of Calgary
Professor Emerita of Perinatal Physiology
Loke CTR Board of Managers, 2009-2014
Chief Scientific Advisor, Cambridge Malaysian Education and Development Trust (CMEDT), Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre (MCSC)
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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary
Program Director, Precision Medicine and Disease Mechanisms, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
Loke CTR Board of Managers, 2013-2018
Emeritus Professor of Reproductive Sciences
Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge
Professor Emerita of Reproductive Immunology, Department of Pathology
Loke CTR Board of Managers, 2008-2017
Division of Reproductive Sciences, University of Colorado
Principal Investigator, Stem Cell Institute, Gleeson Building
2018 Next Generation Fellow
Department of Development and Regeneration, University of Leuven
CTR SAB Member 2016-2023
Co-Director T32 Training Program in Perinatal Medicine and Biology
Department of Pediatrics, Section for Neonatology
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Sciences
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Co Investigator MRC Programme Grant
Clinical Director, Oxford Centre for Fetal Monitoring Technologies
Honorary Research Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall
Co-Investigator, Global Pregnancy Collaboration, (Pittsburgh, USA)
Acting Director, Babraham Institute
University Laureate Professor, Ian Potter Chair of Zoology
Loke CTR Scientific Advisory Board Member, 2018 – 2025
Senior Research Scientist, Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University, California, USA
CTR SAB Member 2016-2023
Head of the Department of Developmental Pathology
University Clinics Bonn, Germany
University of Colorado
Emeritus Professor of Immunology
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow
Professor of Mammalian Development and Stem Cell Biology
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience











































































































































































