Francesca M. Spagnoli

Role: Group Leader, Professor of Regenerative Medicine

Francesca has recently moved to London to become a Group Leader at the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King's College London. She has been the recipient of prestigious grants, including an ERC Starting grant, ERC Proof-of-Concept grant, and and Wellcome Trust Investigator award. More recently, she became the coordinator of a FET OpenEuropean consortium on bioengineering pancreatic tissue. She is also the Director of Wellcome Trust PhD Programme called ‘Advanced Therapies for Regenerative Medicine’.

Spagnoli LabJune 30, 2020

Alejo Torres Cano

Role: Postdoc

I have joined Prof. Spagnoli’s lab as a postdoc to study how the pancreatic microenvironment shapes cellular communication during pancreas development.

Spagnoli LabJune 29, 20202021

Christopher Lee

Role: Postdoc

I have joined Spagnoli Lab as a HFSP postdoctoral fellow to explore the intercellular crosstalk between immune cells and the developing pancreas.

Spagnoli LabJune 28, 20202024

Georgina Goss

Role: Postdoc

I have joined the Spagnoli Lab as a postdoc to investigate mesenchyme heterogeneity and how this affects pancreas development to create an accurate ex-vivo pancreatic niche.

Spagnoli LabJune 27, 20202021

Abigail Isaacson

Role: PhD Student

I completed my Master’s degree in regenerative medicine at UCL and afterwards worked as a research assistant at the Sanger Institute. While there, I worked to establish a pipeline for genetic knockout studies on induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived hepatocytes.

Spagnoli LabJune 24, 2020

Anna Salowka

Role: Research Assistant

I’m a research assistant in Prof. Spagnoli lab. I completed my undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics at Kings College London and I’m currently finishing my MRes course in Molecular Basis of Human disease at Imperial College London. Some of my favourite things to do outside science include dancing, cooking and baking.

Spagnoli LabJune 18, 20202021

Jean Francois Darrigrand

Role: Postdoc

I have joined the Spagnoli Lab as a postdoc to work on the importance of the extracellular matrix and mesenchyme for the spatial development of the pancreas.

Spagnoli LabJune 17, 2020

Heather Wilson

Role: Research Assistant

Heather is a research assistant in the lab, working on direct reprogramming of human fibroblasts into pancreatic beta-like cells. She obtained a BSc in genetics and immunology from the Australian National University, where she subsequently worked on an ENU mutagenesis screen to identify novel mutations affecting gastrulation and organogenesis in mice.

Spagnoli LabJune 17, 2020