Post DOCS/Research Associates

Vincent Knight-Schrijver // Research Associate

Deeti Shetty //Research Associate

Aishwarya Jacob // Research Associate

Maria Köhne // Research Associate

Semih Bayraktar // Research Associate

Laura Nicastro // Research Associate

Emmanuel Wong // Clinical Assistant Professor


Technicians & research assistants

Peter Holt // Research Assistant

Alex Petchey // Lab Technician


Graduate Students

Franklin Lo // Graduate Student

Jonathan Lee // Clinical Graduate Student

Aminder Singh // Clinical Graduate Student

Anna Pullinger // Graduate Student

Beatrice Waller // Graduate Student

Carrie Shi // Graduate Student


Admin team

Deborah Passey // Administrator


ALUMNI

Álex Pascual Cid // MSc Student 2023 - 2024

Jesus Sanchez-Pardo-Echevarria // 2022 - 2023

Patrick Rericha // 2020 - 2023

Maria Colzani // 2016-2023

Hongorzul Davaapil // 2017-2022

Adam Seaton // 2021-2022

Sze Wing Joyce Ho // 2021-2022

Laraine Crossland // 2021-2022

Chuheng Qing // 2022

Robyn Macrae // 2018-2022

Laure Gambardella 2014-2021

Anja Schweikert 2020-2021

Mei Hirano 2020-2021

Lay Ping Ong 2016-2019

Sophie McManus 2015-2019

Murray Polkinghorne 2018-2019

Will Bernard 2012 - 2019

Priya Sastry 2015 - 2019

Madeline McNamara 2014-2018

Ester Tan 2016-2017

Alex Granata 2011-2016

Lucy Low 2011 - 2013

Matt Ackers-Johnson 2009 - 2013

Amar Talasila 2010-2013

Christine Cheung 2009-2012

Linda Raphel 2008-2011

Linda Yang 2009-2010

Group Leader

Sanjay Sinha is a Professor of Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He completed medical training in Cambridge, followed by cardiology clinical training and a PhD in Manchester, UK. Prof Sinha then carried out post-doctoral studies in the USA with Prof Gary Owens on smooth muscle biology before establishing an independent group at Cambridge. His research group is part of the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, where he is the Deputy Director. Prof Sinha’s work combines the fields of stem cell biology and cardiovascular biology to provide new insights into human cardiovascular development and novel treatments for cardiovascular diseases.