
Current lab members
Stuart Rushworth
Group Leader
I am the scientific group leader for molecular haematology research at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, UK. I completed my bachelors degree at the University of Sunderland and my PhD at the University of Cambridge with a focus on immunology. I undertook post-doctoral training at the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia before setting up my own group in 2013.
Charlotte Hellmich
PhD Student - Wellcome Trust
I graduated from Bristol Medical School in 2013 and started work at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital as a Haematology Trainee in 2017. I first joined the Rushworth lab as an Academic Clinical Fellow and started my Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellowship in 2019. My research focus is ageing in the bone marrow microenvironment in the context of infection.
Edyta Wojtowicz
Postdoc Fellow - Wellcome Trust
I am a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the Earlham Institute and the Norwich Medical School. I completed my MSc at the Jagiellonian University followed by my PhD at the University Medical Centre, Groningen as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher. My first Postdoctoral position was in Jacobsen lab at Karolinska Institutet. I am now working on developing new methodologies to study lineage tracing in normal and stressed haematopoiesis.
Rebecca Maynard
PhD Student - NMS
I graduated from the University of Manchester with an integrated master's in Biomedical Sciences. I am a PhD student investigating the effects of obesity on the blood stem cell niche and what changes are made to the bone marrow microenvironment. I am interested in how these changes affect the immune cell and therefore the progression of acute myeloid leukaemia.
Katherine Hampton
PhD Student - NRPDTP
I graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BSc in Biomedicine and an MSc in Molecular Medicine. My research focuses on the role of LC3 associated phagocytosis in regulating and maintaining the haematopoietic stem cell niche, and is funded by the NRPDTP.
Kristian Bowles
Professor of Clinical Haematology
I studied medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals Medical School, London. I trained as a junior doctor in London, Kent and South Africa before specialist training in haematology in Cambridge and Norwich. I undertook my PhD at the University of Cambridge, studying haematopoietic stem cell self renewal. I have been a Consultant Haematologist at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital since 2006 and Professor of Haematology at Norwich Medical School since 2013.
Aisha Jibril
PhD Student - Big C
I graduated from Aston University with a degree in cell and molecular biology. I am a PhD student investigating the role of mitochondrial damage associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) in the bone marrow microenvironment in multiple myeloma. I hope to shed light on how these mitochondrial DAMPs are associated with the inflammatory microenvironment that is involved in multiple myeloma disease progression.
Former lab members
Manar Shafat
PhD 2018
Left for post-doc
University College London
Amina Abdul-Aziz
PhD 2017
Left for post-doc
Ohio State University
Eoghan Forde
Masters 2017
Left for PhD student
University of Glasgow
Genevra Pillinger
Intercalating MRes 2015
Left for
Academic FY Training program
Alvin Katumba
Intercalating MRes 2016
Left for
Academic FY Training program
Megan Murray
Post Doc
Left for post-doc
UEA
Lyubov Zaitseva
Post-doc
Niamh Loughran
Intercalating MRes 2016
Left for
Academic FY Training program
Rachel Piddock
PhD 2018
Left for post-doc
Weill Cornell Medicine,
New York
Becky Horton
Intercalating MRes 2018
Left for
Academic FY Training program
Adam Morfarkis
Intercalating MRes 2018
Left to complete medical degree
Norwich Medical School
Chris Marlein
PhD 2018
Left for post-doc
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Yu Sun
PhD 2019
Left for post-doc
University of Cambridge
Jamie Moore
PhD 2022
Left for senior scientist
CRUK, Cambridge
Prakrit Kumar
Intercalating MRes 2020
Left to complete medical degree
Norwich Medical School
Amelia Lambert
Intercalating MRes 2020
Left to complete medical degree
Norwich Medical School
Jayna Mistry
PhD 2021
Left for post-doc
Jackson Laboratory, USA