I obtained my PhD in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at University College London in 2020. I then joined the group of Dr Luca Urbani at the Roger Williams Institute of Liver Studies, to pursue my interest in combining tissue engineering technologies with cell biology and immunology. As a postdoctoral researcher, I worked on developing in vitro models to study the crosstalk between liver cells, immune cells, and the Extracellular Matrix (ECM) in chronic liver disease.

In June 2022, I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award. I began working on the proposed project in March 2023 in the laboratory of Dr Luca Urbani, in collaboration with Professor Elisa Laurenti at the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. This project aims to deconstruct and reconstruct the human foetal liver haematopoietic stem cell niche to understand the minimal cellular and extracellular components essential for haematopoietic stem cell homeostasis and self-renewal.

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