Research Group



Current Members
Past Members
Collaborators
Open Positions

Current Lab Members

Brittannie Willis

Brittannie Willis

  • PhD: Multi-omics investigation of glioblastoma using DESI imaging and LC-MS
  • October 2022 - Current

I am a PhD student who has always aspired to work in the field of brain tumour research. In my project, I am using DESI-Imaging and proteomics to investigate metabolite dependencies in glioblastoma and the effects of ADI-PEG20.

Other supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Want; Dr Nelofer Syed

Shahid Khalid

Shahid Khalid

  • PhD: The use of in-silico and mathematical modelling to inform on possible biological functioning, between innate immunity such as Lung Surfactant Protein-A and -D (SP-A and SP-D) and microbial ligand interactions, to inform on the potential development of recombinant proteins for therapeutic usage in neonates, children, and adults.
  • October 2022 - Current

Computational Biology and Machine Engineering.

Other supervisors: Prof Alexey Zaikin (UCL), Dr Jens Madsen (UCL)

Matthew Bennett

Matthew Bennett

  • PhD: Probing of the glymphatic system to explore neuroinflammation in humans
  • September 2025 - Current

I am a PhD student at Imperial College London, and I have a passion for biomedical innovation to develop approaches that improve patient outcomes worldwide. In my project, I will access glymphatic fluid from patients, combining proteomic and epigenetic analysis, to evaluate neuroinflammatory signatures for potential therapeutic targets.

Other supervisors: Dr Ivan Koychev (PI), Dr Lucia Li


Past Lab Members

Akshita Barwad

  • MRes: Optimizing Proteomics Data Pre-Processing for Enhanced Protein Quantitation in Neurological Disease Research
  • March 2025 - August 2025

Luyilin Cai

  • MRes: Building a Neuronal Spectral Library to Study Synapse Function in Alzheimer's Disease.
  • March 2025 - August 2025

Other supervisors: Dr Johanne Jackson

Wenhao Wang

  • MSc: Building a Brian Spectral Library to Study Synapse Function in Alzheimer's Disease.
  • May 2025 - August 2025

Other supervisors: Dr Johanne Jackson

Rayan Alawieh

  • MSc: Building a Methyl-Proteomics Spectral Library to Study the Methionine Salvage Pathway in MTAP-/- Cancer by LC-MS/MS.
  • May 2025 - August 2025

Nuo Xu

  • MRes: Investigating Lipidomic and Proteomics Changes in Response to Acute Burn Injury.
  • March 2025 - August 2025

Other supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Want, Dr Istvan Nagy

Yilin Fan

  • MRes: Investigating Lipidomic and Proteomics Changes in Response to Acute Burn Injury.
  • March 2025 - August 2025

Other supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Want, Dr Istvan Nagy

Xun Xie

  • MRes: Development of a High-Throughput Workflow for Cancer Early Detection using Extracellular Vesicle Metabolomics and Proteomics
  • October 2024 - March 2025

Other supervisors: Dr Virag Sagi-Kiss, Dr Erika Dorado-Montezuma

Seyoung Ho

  • MRes: Studying the Methionine Salvage Pathway in MTAP-/- Cancer by LC-MS/MS
  • October 2024 - March 2025

Other supervisors: Dr Virag Sagi-Kiss, Dr Elizabeth Want

Sam Wong

  • MRes: AstraZeneca Sponsored Project: Proteomic analysis of human mesenchymal stem cell cross-talk with haematopoietic stem cells in 3 dimensional niche of complex in vitro model of bone marrow
  • October 2024 - March 2025

Other supervisors: Dr Gopal Dhondalay, Dr Kainat Khan, Dr Elizabeth Want

Ran Zhang

  • MRes: Development of a High-Throughput Workflow for Cancer Early Detection using Extracellular Vesicle Proteomics
  • October 2023 - March 2024

Other supervisors: Dr Virag Sagi-Kiss, Dr Erika Dorado-Montezuma

Daniel Yu

  • MRes: What is the Ratio of Surfactant Protein A1 and A2 in the lung – detecting and quantifying protein isoforms by mass spectrometry
  • October 2023 - March 2024

Other supervisors: Dr Jens Madsen (UCL)

Tendayi Samuriwo

  • PhD: Characterisation of ErbB2 mediated signalling events in breast cancer
  • March 2016 - August 2023

Other supervisors: Prof Alexey Zaikin; Prof Anne Lanceley; Prof John Timms

Yutong Liu

  • MRes: Does MTAP Loss of Expression Lead to Protein Hypomethylation in Cancer?
  • March 2023 - August 2023

Other supervisors: Dr Beatriz Jimenez

Maximilian Mollenhauer-Starkl

  • MSc: AstraZeneca Sponsored Project: Using proteomic profiling for characterization of role of human mesenchymal stem cells in 3 dimensional niche of complex in vitro
  • October 2022 - March 2023

Other supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Want; Dr Kainat Khan

Chunyan Li

  • MSc: Studying the Methionine Salvage Pathway in MTAP-/- Cancer by LC-MS/MS
  • December 2022 - March 2023

Other supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Want; Dr Elena Chekmeneva

Amelia Schriker

  • MRes: Proteomic Modelling of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Synolytic Network Analysis on the Religious Orders Study (ROS) and Memory Aging Project (MAP)
  • March 2022 - August 2022

Other supervisors: Dr Johanne Jackson

Yuxing Xue

  • MSc: Identifying Changes to Protein Molecular Pathways in MTAP-/- Cancer
  • March 2022 - August 2022

Other supervisors: Prof Hector Keun

Cerian Bolton

  • MSc: Exploring Proteomics Changes Downstream of MTAP Deletion
  • March 2021 - August 2021

Other supervisors: Prof Zoltan Takats

Niculina Miron

  • MSc: Exploring Proteomics Changes Downstream of MTAP Deletion
  • Dec 2020 - March 2021

Other supervisors: Prof Zoltan Takats


Principal Collaborators

Dr Oleg Blyuss

  • Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University London

Dr Elizabeth Want

  • Head of the Section of Analytical Chemistry, MDR, Imperial College London

Open Positions

Happy to consider potential PhD candidates for projects in proteomics, protein methylation, cancer, neurodegeneration and computational biology. Please get in touch!