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The Department of Pharmacology is seeking to appoint up to two Career Development Fellows by early 2020. Aimed at outstanding experienced and early career researchers, these posts will provide space, access to facilities and support to enable the postholders to establish their own independent research programme.
Dr Thomas Lanyon-Hogg
Dr Tom Lanyon-Hogg completed his Masters in Medicinal Chemistry and PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Leeds, before joining the group of Professor Ed Tate at Imperial College London as a postdoctoral researcher in Chemical Biology. Whilst at Imperial, Tom’s research focused on various ‘classically undruggable’ protein targets and he worked in drug discovery labs at the Institute of Cancer Research, the Francis Crick Institute, the Dundee Drug Discovery Unit, and Diamond Light Source. In 2020 Tom joined the Department of Pharmacology as a Career Development Fellow to start his first research group.
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Dr Sara Hijazi
Dr Sara Hijazi studied for her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology at Vrije University in the Netherlands, working on a project which investigated PV+ neuron dysfunction in an Alzheimer’s disease (AD) model. Between 2020 and 2022, Sara was employed as a postdoctural researcher at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam before being appointment to the prestigious Blaschko Fellowship in Pharmacology in 2022. Sara was successful in 2024 in obtaining a two-year UKRI Horizon MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr Matthew Lloyd
Dr Matthew Lloyd completed a Masters in Biochemistry at Oxford in 2018, working on his Part II project in the lab of Associate Professor Sri Vasudevan in Pharmacology. He was then awarded an Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP) iCASE Studentship and studied for his DPhil in the Oxford Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), under the joint supervision of Professor Dame Fran Ashcroft and Dr Carina Ammala from the Novo Nordisk Research Centre. Matthew was successful in 2023 in obtaining a three-year Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Research Fellowship which enabled him to return to work with both Sri in Pharmacology and Dr Aarti Jagannath and Professor Russell Foster in the NDCN Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute.
Dr Kerstin Timm
Dr Kerstin Timm is a Career Development Fellow (CDF) in Pharmacology, appointed following a highly competitive open recruitment in 2020. Kerstin completed a PhD in Biochemistry at Cambridge in 2016 and was then successful in obtaining a British Heart Foundation (BHF) Immediate Postdoctoral Basic Science Research Fellowship in the Oxford Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG). She was then awarded a BHF Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) Fellowship which she started in DPAG and then moved to Pharmacology for the first period of her CDF. Kerstin also holds posts with Oriel College and Somerville College and has been successful since moving to Pharmacology in obtaining grants from the Returning Carers’ Fund, the John Fell Fund, the Academy of Medical Sciences and several awards from the BHF CRE.
Dr Tianyi Sun
Dr Tianyi Sun joined Oxford in 2018 to study for her DPhil in Pharmacology. In 2022 she was appointed to a postdoctoral position in the lab of Professor Ming Lei, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF). In 2024, Tianyi was successful in obtaining a four-year BHF Immediate Postdoctoral Basic Science Research Fellowship starting in October 2024.