PhD Students

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Ms Natalie Kipling
PhD student 2019 - 2025
Project
Comparison of the Immune Microenvironment of Metastatic Uveal Melanoma with other Liver Secondaries.

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Dr Luisa De Almeida Morais Silva
PhD student 2019 - 2023
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Dr Hongrun Zhang
​PhD student 2019 - 2023
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Dr Hayley Jones
PhD student 2019 - 2023




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Dr Maximilian Harris
PhD student 2017- 2022
Now working as a R&D microbiology technician for Advanced Medical Solutions
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Dr Alda Rola Cunha
PhD student 2017 - 2021
MD, PhD, Ophthalmologist (ocular oncology and oculoplastic)
Dr Sam Prendergast  
​PhD Student 2014-2020
Now working as IP & Innovation Coordinator at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 
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 Dr Sophie Thornton 
​  PhD Student 2016-2019
   Now working as Tumour Entity Lead at Seagen
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   Dr Luna Djirackor
​  PhD Student 2016-2019
   Now in Oslo University Hospital working as a Post-Doc Research Fellow
Dr Haleh Shahidipour
PhD Student : 2012 - 2016
Now in Australia working as a Post-Doc in Western Sydney University. ​

Dr Martina Angi
CRUK Clinical Research Fellow: 2010-2015

Martina's research interest focused on biomarker discovery for early detection of metastatic disease in uveal melanoma patients. Applying proteomic techniques to study secreted proteins from both primary ocular tissues as well as from cultured tumour cells. In addition, investigating the presence of circulating tumour cells in the peripheral blood of these patients.

Martina is an Ophthalmologist, with strong interests in clinical research, mainly in the fields of ocular oncology, uveitis and vitreoretinal surgery.

Miss Hannah Ma
PhD Student: 2009-2011

A visiting student from the University of Hong Kong, Hannah joined the LOORG in 2009 to investigate the molecular pathogenesis of ocular adnexal lymphoma, in particular the role epigenetic deregulation and bacterial infection in patient prognosis. Hannah returned to Hong Kong in 2011.

Dr Justyna Dopierala
PhD Student: 2007-2010

Conducted studies into the genetic heterogeneity of uveal melanoma assessed by MLPA between 2007 and 2010, contributing to six publications. Twice winner of the abstract competition of the medical postgraduate students at the University of Liverpool (2008, 2009) and first poster prize for the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University Poster Day in in 2010. Justyna graduated  in December 2010 and has since moved  to London to study for an MSc degree in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology  at Imperial College London.