Visiting Researchers - Summer 2023

The Wedge group had the pleasure of hosting two visiting PhD researchers this past summer, pictured above on a dazzlingly sunny day in Manchester.

Claire Kramer visited us from the Department of Pathology at the Leiden University Medical Center from mid-May until the end of July. Claire’s work focuses on ovarian carcinoma, and during her time in the Wedge group she worked with Aliah Hawari and Laura Woodhouse to identify copy number signatures in endometrial and ovarian cancers. While in Manchester, she was particularly interested to compare her cohort of samples from the Netherlands with cohorts available in the UK. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Claire and the rest of her team in Leiden when she returns home.

Essi Girum Girma joined us from Joachim Weischenfeldt’s group, at the University of Copenhagen’s Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, for a couple of weeks in July and August. Essi has collaborated with the Wedge group for several years from afar through her work with the Pan-Prostate Cancer Group consortium. It was a pleasure to host Essi in person after having worked together for so long online. During her time in Manchester Essi continued her work on subclonal clustering of structural variants in metastatic prostate cancer.

We would like to thank Claire and Essi for joining us this summer and for sharing their insights and expertise with the group. Essi and Claire enriched both lunch breaks and lab meetings with their presence and will surely be missed as we transition from summer to autumn. We hope that you will look back on your time in the Wedge group with a smile and wish you the best of luck with your respective PhDs!