Researchers in the Unit

Research Biographies

This page lists research leaders within the Unit and the areas they are working in.

MOLECULAR HAEMATOLOGY UNIT Director: Professor Doug Higgs

Dr. Marella de Bruijn Molecular pathways controlling haemopoietic stem cell generation during ontogeny	Dr. Veronica Buckle Nuclear organisation and erythropoiesis	Prof. Richard Gibbons Chromatin remodelling factors in human genetic disease
Prof. Doug Higgs Regulation of alpha globin expression	Dr. Jim Hughes Regulation of the erythroid genome	Prof. Sten Eirik Jacobsen Delineation of cellular and molecular pathways of normal and leukemic haematopoietic stem cell fate decisions
Dr. Thomas Milne Epigenetic control of gene expression in leukemia and haematopoiesis	Prof. Claus Nerlov Hematopoietic stem cell maintenance and fate specification	Prof. Roger Patient Programming blood and the cardiovascular system
Dr. Catherine Porcher Transcriptional control of haemopoietic stem cell specification and differentiation	Prof. Terry Rabbitts Modelling consequences of chromosomal translocations in cancer and methods for protein-protein interaction inhibitor development	Dr. Andrew Smith Innovation and application of genetic engineering strategies in embryonic stem cells
Prof. Paresh Vyas Normal and leukaemic stem/progenitor cell biology	Prof. Sir David Weatherall The population genetics and mechanisms of phenotypic variability for the thalassaemias	Prof. Bill Wood Globin gene regulation and erythroid differentiation

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