The BioResource Leadership Team
Chief Investigator & Co-Chair
Co-Chair
Director
Operations Lead
Head of Samples
Business Manager
Strategic Development and Enterprise Lead
Menelaos Ioannidis
Senior Programme Manager
Jane Monk
PA to the Director
Currently recruiting
Head of Research and Data Technology
Prof. John Bradley
Chief Investigator & Co-Chair
Professor John Bradley CBE is Chief Investigator & Co-Chair of the NIHR BioResource.
He is a Consultant Physician at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of Cambridge, and Director of Research for Cambridge University Hospitals and Cambridge University Health Partners.
Prof. Patrick Chinnery
Co-Chair
Professor Patrick Chinnery is Co-Chair of the NIHR BioResource and is Clinical Director of the Medical Research Council, Professor of Neurology, Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge and clinical neurologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
He is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow with his research lab based in the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit. He is known for his expertise in rare inherited diseases that affect the nervous system.
Dr. Nathalie Kingston
Director
Dr. Nathalie Kingston manages a multi-skilled team leading on the recruitment and recall of volunteers, the collection and storage of biological samples, clinical and genomic data, as well as the IT infrastructure underpinning all BioResource operations.
Nathalie has a PhD in Immunology from the University of Strathclyde and subsequently joined the University of Cambridge to carry out research in autoimmune and infectious diseases. She then worked at the Wellcome Sanger Institute as the Director’s Executive Assistant, before joining the BioResource in 2013.
Hannah Stark
Operations Lead
Hannah Stark leads the Operations team, which is responsible for the coordination of recruitment across all NIHR BioResource programmes. The team support recruitment sites and BioResource Centres recruiting into the BioResource and answers questions from members of the public and volunteers. The team also supports academic and industry researchers in inviting BioResource volunteers to their studies and ensuring they run to time and target.
Dr. Kathy Stirrups
Head of Samples
Dr Kathy Stirrups leads the Samples team, which is responsible for the bio-banking of samples from new participants for future research studies and the extraction and quality control of DNA before generation of genetic data. She also oversees the feasibility and then provision of samples to research groups according to the project specification and manages bespoke projects such as whole genome (WGS) or RNA sequencing to assess the translation of these techniques into health systems.
Kathy has held a number of academic and small biotech roles specialising in assays and bio-banking of DNA, RNA, proteins and biological samples. Her PhD is in Molecular Virology from the University of Reading.
Danielle Walker
Business Manager
Danielle Walker leads the Business Management function, providing professional support services to the NIHR BioResource. The teams within Business Management are responsible for HR, Finance, Business Administration, and Communications. We support a wide breadth of tasks within these areas, including pre and post award funding management, contracts and procurement, provide day to day office management, travel booking, arrange training and events, and manage the staff recruitment process just to name a few. We are the first point of contact for staff on all the above, and if we don’t know the answer, we know who to speak to.
Dr. Heather Ramsay
Strategic Development and Enterprise Lead
Heather Ramsay leads the Business Development team, which liaises with industry researchers, facilitating their BioResource access requests and providing support through the application and contracting processes. The team also engages both industry and academic researchers through conferences and symposia, presentations about the BioResource, and through networking events.
Heather has held similar industry liaison roles in the UK and US and was previously a biomedical researcher in discovery, efficacy, and toxicology research. She has a PhD in biological anthropology from the University of Missouri.
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