Our Team
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Dr Lucy Brooks
Principal Investigator
Lucy received her Ph.D. from Imperial College London. She conducted her postdoctoral work with Prof. Simona Parrinello at the UCL Cancer Institute, first as a postdoc then a CRUK RadNet Senior Research Fellow. Lucy now leads the brain tumour plasticity and resistance lab at the University of Oxford studying how cellular plasticity and intratumoral heterogeneity contribute to therapy resistance in brain cancer.
E-mail: lucy.brooks@oncology.ox.ac.uk
Bluesky: @brooks-lab.bsky.social
X: @Lucy_J_Brooks
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Mélanie Bellina
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Holly Kitley
MSc student
I completed my BSc in Biomedical Science at Queen Mary University of London, where I investigated “Vascular Promotion Therapy” as a novel adjunct to chemotherapy and immunotherapy for the treatment of non–small cell lung cancer. I am currently pursuing my MSc by Research in Oncology at the University of Oxford, where I study intrinsic and extrinsic factors implicated in radiation treatment resistance in glioblastoma.
Alumni:
Adam Kandil
Research technician (2024-2025)
Current Position: Research Technician with Dr Jamie Dean (UCL)
Rhyla Mae Santiago
PhD Student (Co-supervised with Simona Parrinello and Simon Boulton) (2020-2024)
Current Position: Junior Consultant - Moorhouse
Jenda Braaksma
Research technician (2023-2024)
Current Position: Medical Student - Utrecht University (Selective Utrecht Medical Master (SUMMA))
Laura Soto Polo
Master’s student (2023)
Current Position: VC Investor in Health & Corporate Innovation at Plug and Play Tech Center
Thomas Savy
Master’s student (2020-2021)
Current Position: PhD student with Professor Marco Gerlinger (Barts Cancer Institute)
Daniela Kocher
Master’s student (Erasmus) (2019)
Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher (Jena University Hospital, Germany)