Lab Members
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Helena is a Group Head at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. She received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge in 2006, at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in the group of Prof. Mike Murphy, where she developed an interest in mitochondrial oxidative stress and redox biology. She started working with Drosophila in 2007 as a post-doc at the Institute of Healthy Ageing, UCL in the laboratory of Prof. Linda Partridge. She established her own group at the LMS in 2013, and was promoted to Programme Leader Track in 2018.
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Andrea graduated with a BA in Natural Sciences specialising in Genetics at Trinity College Dublin in her native Ireland. She then completed a Masters in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Ulster, before moving to London to work as a research technician at University College London. She has been working in the field of Drosophila ageing and metabolism ever since, and joined the Cochemé Lab in 2014.
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Claudia is from Germany and did her PhD studies in Biochemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in the group of Prof. Barbara Seliger, where she developed an interest in redox signalling, exploring the effects of selenocompounds on cellular redox state and how tumours escape from immune surveillance. As part of her PhD studies, she moved to the US for 8 months to work at the Georgia Cancer Center in the group of Dr Samir Khleif. Claudia joined the Cochemé Lab as an MRC Postdoctoral Research Scientist in 2018, and is investigating the redox regulation of metabolic signalling pathways in Drosophila.
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Nsikan completed his BSc Biomedical Science and MSc Cancer Biology at the University of Kent. He then joined Dr Claudia Barros’ group at the University of Plymouth, initially as a Research Assistant and then as a PhD student, researching genes and mechanisms implicated in the initiation and development of glioblastomas and low-grade gliomas. Nsikan joined the LMS in April 2023 as a joint Post-Doc between the Cochemé and Hirabayashi labs, where his work focuses on the interplay between age and colorectal cancer. Nsikan was awarded a Career Development Fellowship from the Royal Society in October 2024.
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Paul is an academic clinical fellow in hepatology. He graduated with a MBChB from the University of Dundee in 2014, and subsequently moved to London to begin his clinical training. His research interests include mitochondria in liver disease and immunometabolism. Paul joined the Cochemé lab in 2020 as a Chain Florey Clinical Research Fellow, investigating mitochondrial dysfunction in alcohol hepatitis, co-supervised with Prof. Mark Thursz from the Faculty of Medicine. Paul was awarded his PhD in 2024, and is continuing his research at the LMS with the aim of developing a career as an academic clinician.
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Vincent obtained his MSci Biochemistry at King’s College London. He developed an interest in redox signalling during his BSc dissertation project in the group of Dr Olena Rudyk at St Thomas Hospital, researching the redox regulation of cyclin dependent kinase 2. Vincent joined the Cochemé lab as a PhD student in October 2023 to study redox signalling in metabolism and ageing.
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Alumni
- Eliano dos Santos (PhD Student): Post-Doc, King's College London
- Taylor McGilvary (MRes Student): Research Assistant, University of Glasgow
- Maria Tossounian (Post-Doc): Post-Doc, University College London
- Rugile Januskeviciute (MRes Student): PhD, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Alec Vincent (PhD Student): Institute of Healthy Ageing, UCL
- Lucie van Leeuwen (PhD Student): Science Communications Officer, UMC Utrecht, Netherlands
- Pengyi Ding (MSc Student)
- Wan Chen (MSc Student): PhD, University of Aberdeen
- Marcela Buricova (Research Assistant/Lab Manager - Maternity Cover): Research Assistant, Cardiff University
- Cassie Lee (MRes Student)
- Salih Kucuk (MSc Student): PhD, University of Birmingham
- Fiona Leiper (Post-Doc): Senior Scientist, University of Glasgow
- Joel James (Commonwealth Scholar): PhD, VIT University, India
- Stephany Jaiquel Baron (MSc Student): PhD, University of Cambridge
- Lucy Marshall (BSc Student): PhD, King’s College London
- Emma Walmsley (BSc Student): MSc/PhD, Imperial College London
- Esther van Dam (Erasmus Scholar): MD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam
- Henry Bickers (BSc Student): MSc, University of Oxford