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A team of nine Principal Investigators (Management Team) steers the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology; these are:

Prof David Broomhead (Chair in Applied Mathematics; Director, Turing Institute)
Prof Carole Goble (Professor of Computer Science)
Prof Roy Goodacre (Professor of Biological Chemistry)
Prof Simon Hubbard (Faculty of Life Sciences)
Prof John McCarthy (Professor of Chemical Biology; Director, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre)
Prof Pedro Mendes (Professor in Computational Systems Biology, MCISB)
Prof Norman Paton (Chair in Computer Science; co-Director, Information Management Group)
Prof Hans Westerhoff (AstraZeneca Professor of Systems Biology, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science; Director, MCISB)
Prof Anthony Whetton (Head of School of Cancer & Imaging Sciences and Professor of Cancer Cell Biology)


Previous Director:

Prof. Douglas Kell (EPSRC/RSC Research Chair in Bioanalytical Science)


Prof. Hans Westerhoff has been the Director of the MCISB since October 2008.


Professor Hans Westerhoff

Professor Hans Westerhoff
Director, MCISB


Prof. Pedro Mendes has been the Deputy Director of the MCISB since October 2008.


Professor Pedro Mendes

Professor Pedro Mendes
Chair in Computational Systems Biology


The Industrial Partnership Committee:

Dr Adriano Henney AstraZeneca (Chair)
Dr Neil Benson Pfizer
Dr Janette Jones Unilever
Dr Linda Magee NWDA
Dr Malcolm Skingle GSK
Dr Neil Hayes MCISB
Dr Malcolm Weir Inpharmatica


The International Scientific Advisory Board:

Prof. Bernhard Palsson (University of California, San Diego)
Prof. Hiroaki Kitano (The Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo)
Prof. Roger Brent (The Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA)



The following interdisciplinary team members are employed as part of the MCISB:


Helen Bryant

Helen Bryant
Research Technician
(Biomolecular Interactions)

Dr Kathleen Carroll

Dr Kathleen Carroll
Experimental Officer
(Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry)

Dr Joseph Dada

Dr Joseph Dada
Postdoctoral Research Associate
(Computational Systems Biology)

Dr Rick Dunn

Dr Rick Dunn
Experimental Officer
(Metabolomics - Mass Spectrometry)

Dr Neil Hayes

Dr Neil Hayes
Project Manager


Dr Daniel Jameson

Dr Daniel Jameson
Postdoctoral Research Associate
(Information Management)

Dr Naglis Malys

Dr Naglis Malys
Experimental Officer
(Protein Purification)

Dr Evangelos Simeonidis

Dr Evangelos Simeonidis
Experimental Officer
(Mathematical Modelling & Optimization)

Dr Kieran Smallbone

Dr Kieran Smallbone
Experimental Officer
(Inverse Modelling)

Neil Swainston

Neil Swainston
Experimental Officer
(Information Management)





In addition, the following researchers collaborate closely with the MCISB team:


Malgorzata Adamczyk

Dr Malgorzata Adamczyk
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Farid Khan

Dr Farid Khan
Principal Investigator
Molecular Biotechnology Group

Karin Lanthaler

Dr Karin Lanthaler
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Hanan Messiha

Dr Hanan Messiha
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Catherine Winder

Dr Catherine Winder
Postdoctoral Research Associate



Affiliated PhD students:


Olusegun Oshota

Olusegun Oshota
PhD student

Natalie Stanford

Natalie Stanford
PhD student