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Scientific Advisors
Dr Nick Allen
Dr Allen is a staff scientist in the Genetics Group of the School
of Biosciences, Cardiff University. His research focus is the development
and plasticity of neural stem cells, principally using the differentiation
of embryonic stem cells as a model system. Dr Allen was previously
a Principal Investigator at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, and
holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Cambridge.
Prof Tony Cass
Professor Cass is Professor of Chemical Biology, Deputy Director and Bio-nanotechnology Research Director in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London. His research interests are in the field of protein engineering and analytical biotechnology: his work was responsible for the development of the first electronic blood glucose measuring system, for which he received the Royal Society's Mullard Medal. Professor Cass is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Oxford.
Prof Sir Martin Evans FRS
Sir Martin is Director of the School of Biosciences and Professor of Mammalian Genetics at Cardiff University. He is widely recognized as the father of stem cell research, having been the first to isolate embryonic stem cells from the mouse. Sir Martin has published over 125 research papers, is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and is the recipient of numerous honours and prizes, including the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in recognition of his pioneering work on stem cells.
Prof Andrew Griffiths
Professor Griffiths is Director of the Laboratory of Biological Chemistry at the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS), Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. He is a leading expert in combinatorial biology methods, being an inventor on over 19 MRC patents on antibody phage display, and the co-inventor of the in vitro compartmentalization (IVC) method of directed protein evolution on which he currently works. Professor Griffiths was previously a group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Leicester.
Prof Sir Aaron Klug OM FRS
Sir Aaron has been a staff scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular
Biology, Cambridge, since 1962. He has made seminal discoveries
in such areas as the structure and function of DNA, RNA, animal
and plant viruses and transcription factors. Sir Aaron was the Director
of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (1986-1996), is a Fellow
of the Royal Society and has served as President of the Royal Society
(1995-2000), is a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of
Sciences and of the French Academy of Sciences, and an Honorary
Fellow of Peterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. He has published
over 250 research papers and holds an array of honours and prizes
among which are the Order of Merit and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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