UK Genetic Prostate Cancer Study

Meet the Team

We have three teams working alongside each other, the Lab team of scientists and clinical fellows, the Data team of scientists and administrators and the clinical researchers of nurses and clinical fellows; our principal investigator, Professor Eeles, oversees these teams.

Professor Rosalind Eeles

Professor Rosalind (Ros) Eeles has been instrumental in ensuring new discoveries in cancer genetics immediately benefit patients, particularly in her specialty areas of BRCA-mutation carriers and prostate cancer.

Professor Eeles is a clinician as well as a scientist, running both a laboratory at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and a Cancer Genetics Clinic at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. She is also heavily involved in the Everyman campaign through her work with prostate cancer. 
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Meet the Lab Team

Dr Zsofia Kote-Jarai PhD  - Senior Staff Scientist
Zsofia is a molecular scientist working at The Institute of Cancer Research in the Oncogenetics Team. She has over 20 many years of experience working internationally in the field of human molecular genetics, particularly cancer genetics. She is leading the molecular component of the team focusing on finding germline alterations, rare and common variants, predisposing to prostate cancer and. She  co-supervises  clinical fellows and PhD students  in the team. Her current work is focusing on translational research of prostate cancer.

Daniel Leongamornlert - Scientific Officer
Daniel gained an interest in cancer research while completing his Biochemistry degree final year project working on proteases at the University of East Anglia. He then worked at the Sanger Institute for 7 years and was involved in the Human, Mouse and Zebra fish genome projects. A post in the Sanger’s large scale genotyping lab and X chromosome group renewed his interest in laboratory research  and applied genetic researchand he jumped at the chance of which led to joining the ICR, Translational Cancer Genetics Team. Daniel is currently undertaking a part-time PhD studying “Involvement of rare variants in prostate cancer”.

Malgorzata Tymrakiewicz - Scientific Officer
Malgorzata has an MSc in biology from the University of Opole in Poland. After moving to London she studied drug discovery at the University of London's School of Pharmacy, which included a research project at the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research. This resulted in her being awarded a second MSc degree. An interest in doing biomedical research led Malgorzata to join the team here, where she is looking forward to the challenges that the study will provide.

Ed Saunders
Ed joined the laboratory team straight from university in 2008 after completing an MRes in Biochemical Research at Imperial College London,  having previously studied Biochemistry at the University of Nottingham. Ed’s strong interest in scientific research and his grounding in genetics and molecular biology made a natural match with the studies of the ICR Oncogenetics team.

Tokhir Dadaev-Scientific Officer-Data Analyst
Tokhir worked as Data Analyst Developer at the NHS Information Centre before joining the ICR in December 2010. He has MSc Business Systems Analysis and Design degree from the City University London. He provides systems and databases support for the team and developing bioinformatics skill.

• Meet the Data Team
• Meet the Translational Clinical Team