UNCITI-BROCETA GROUP
Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre, Institute of Genetics and Cancer
University of Edinburgh
ALUMNI
Dr Jason
Weiss
Publications from his thesis:
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Nature Communications 2014.
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Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2014.
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Frontiers in Chemistry 2014.
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Scientific Reports 2015.
Current:
Health Care and Life Sciences Business Leader at STEMCELL Technologies
Dr Craig
Fraser
Publications from his thesis:
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MedChemComm 2016.
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Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2016.
Current:
Director of Medical Affairs at Primex Iceland
Dr Sam Myers
Publications from his thesis:
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Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2016.
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Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2018.
Current:
Portfolio Specialist at Aliko Scientific
Dr Thomas Bray
Publications from his thesis:
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Chemical Science 2018.
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Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2022.
Current:
VP Corporate Business Development at Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Dr Carolin Temps
Publications from her thesis:
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Cancer Research 2021.
Current:
BD at Sobi (Basel, Switzerland)
Dan Baillache
Publications from his thesis:
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RSC Med Chem. 2021.
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RSC Med Chem. 2023.
Current:
Part-Qualified Patent Attorney at Brand Murray Fuller
Cecilia C. Ayala-Aguilera
Publications from his thesis:
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J Med Chem. 2022.
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RSC Med Chem. 2025.
Current:
MSL Prostate Cancer at J&J
Stephen Croke
Melissa van de L'Isle
Ben
King
Iñigo Lanzagorta-Calvillo
FORMER POSTDOCS
Dr Belén Rubio-Ruiz
Publications from her time in our lab:
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Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2016.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018.
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Nature Catalysis 2019.
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Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 2021.
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NanoLetters 2023.
Current:
Associate Professor at the Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Dr Ana
Pérez-
López
Publications from her time in our lab:
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Angew. Chemie 2017.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018.
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Nature Catalysis 2019.
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Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2021.
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NanoLetters 2023.
Current:
Postdoc Researcher UniSysCat at TU Berlin
Dr Teresa Valero
Publications from her time in our lab:
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Bioconjugate Chemistry 2018.
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Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 2020.
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Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2022.
Current:
Associate Professor at the Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Dr Shiao Chow
Publications from her time in our lab:
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JACS Au 2022.
Current:
Chancellor's Fellow at University of Strathclyde
Dr Mari Carmen Ortega
Publications from her time in our lab:
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Angew. Chemie 2022.
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Angew. Chemie 2025.
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JACS 2025.
Current:
Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the Universidad de Granada and GENyO Principal Investigator (Spain)
Dr Rafa
Contreras-Montoya
Publications from her time in our lab:
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Square 2025.
Current:
Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Dr Yang Ge
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Dr Saúl Marchal
FORMER STUDENTS AND VISITORS
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Amelie Ridley (Honours student, 2026).
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Blake Hedley (Honours student, 2026).
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Ana Belén Díaz (Visiting PhD student, 2024).
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Jose I. Garcia-Peiro (Visiting PhD student, 2024).
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Ben Jones (Visiting PhD student, 2022-2024)
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Chiara Roccatello (Visiting PhD student, 2023).
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Elsa Smith (Honours student, 2023).
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Juan Gurruchaga (Visiting PhD student, 2019-2020).
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Luis Álvarez de Cienfuegos (Visiting Professor, 2019).
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Anna Wijngaard (Honours student, 2019).
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Rafael Contreras (Visiting PhD Student, 2018).
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Álvaro Lorente (Visiting PhD Student, 2017).
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Hector Yiannakas (Postgrad Summer Student, 2017).
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Olga Cruz-Lopez (Visiting Professor, 2017).
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Hannah Marlow (Undergrad Student, 2016).
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Beatrice Longo (Erasmus Student, 2016).
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Inês Lains-Cardoso (Erasmus Student, 2016).
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Richard Crispin (PhD Student, 2013-2017). 1st supervisor: Dr E Elizabeth Patton. 2nd supervisor: Dr A Unciti-Broceta.
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Prabha Peramuhendige (PhD Student, 2011-2015). 1st supervisor: Dr Aymen Idris. 2nd supervisor: Dr A Unciti-Broceta.