Nathalie joined the Generations Study research team in April 2025. She is an enthusiastic Staff  Scientist with a primary interest in lifestyle research to enhance the understanding of the causes of lifestyle-related cancers and to identify pathways to cancer prevention. She is also interested in the design, management and analysis of large cancer-related epidemiological studies.

She received her PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health at the University College London (UCL). Upon completion of her PhD, in 2017, she was appointed to a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship position to work within the Nutritional Epidemiology Group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer/ World Health Organization (IARC/WHO). In 2020, she moved to Brazil and continue working for IARC/WHO as a consultant for the Sustainable Lifestyle and Cancer team.  More recently, in 2023, she was appointed as a Research fellow in Epidemiology at the Cancer Hospital & Research Centre of Santa Catarina (CEPON), Brazil. She has also been the Principal Investigator of the LifeScreen intervention in Brazil, for which she was awarded a grant from IARC/WHO.

At the Generations study, Nathalie is overseeing data collection, coordinating study operations, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and best practices. She is also leading research efforts, managing external collaborations and contributing to publications and grant writing.

Maggie Qiao

Trials Methodologist:

ICR-CTSU Early Phase and Adaptive Trials Headshot of Maggie Qiao

Being graduated in Statistics in UK and China, Yu (Maggie) began her career as a SAS programmer at Pfizer, then worked as a trial statistician at OCTRU (University of Oxford). She joined the ICR as a Trials Methodologist in 2025, focusing on early-phase trials and adaptive designs, and methodology improvement work.

Dr Conor Oates

Postdoctoral Training Fellow:

Medicinal Chemistry 1

Jamie Mann

Clinical Trial Assistant:

Clinical Academic Radiotherapy (Huddart)

Mahek Mehta

Clinical Trial Assistant:

The Adult Drug Development Unit at the ICR and the RM

Michelle Egbor

Clinical Trial Assistant:

The Adult Drug Development Unit at the ICR and the RM

Dr Xinyi Shen

Postdoctoral Training Fellow:

Cancer Biomarkers

Dr Sophia Lunetto

Postdoctoral Training Fellow:

Cancer Dynamics

Syed Hussain

Vacation Student:

Oncogenetics

Shameela Cousins

Assistant Practitioner:

Oncogenetics

Romayne McMahon

Research Assistant:

Oncogenetics

Dr Rose Hall

Clinical Research Fellow:

Oncogenetics

Dr Emma Hainsworth

Nurse Researcher:

Oncogenetics

Barbara Benton

Research Nurse:

Oncogenetics

Anmol Jhans

Data Manager:

Oncogenetics

Dr Karolína Benkova

Analytical Scientist in Single Cell and Spatial Genomics:

Breast Cancer Research Data Science Group

Dr Junyuan Lyu

Visiting Postdoctoral Training Fellow:

Breast Cancer Research Data Science Group

Dr Gayathiri Sathiamoorthy Kannan

Postdoctoral Training Fellow:

Hit Discovery and Structural Design

Dr Dhananjay Kumar

Higher Scientific Officer:

Hit Discovery and Structural Design

Dr Abigail Brewer

Higher Scientific Officer:

Hit Discovery and Structural Design

Dr Nathalie Kliemann

Staff Scientist:

Integrative Cancer Epidemiology Nathalie Kliemann headshot

Nathalie joined the Generations Study research team in April 2025. She is an enthusiastic Staff Scientist with a primary interest in lifestyle research to enhance the understanding of the causes of lifestyle-related cancers and to identify pathways to cancer prevention. She is also interested in the design, management and analysis of large cancer-related epidemiological studies.