Meet The Team at NIHR BioResource

Prof. John Bradley

Chief Investigator & Co-Chair

Professor John Bradley CBE is Chief Investigator & Co-Chair of the NIHR BioResource.

He is a Consultant Physician at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of Cambridge, and Director of Research for Cambridge University Hospitals and Cambridge University Health Partners.

Prof. Patrick Chinnery

Co-Chair

Professor Patrick Chinnery is Co-Chair of the NIHR BioResource and is Clinical Director of the Medical Research Council, Professor of Neurology, Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge and clinical neurologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

He is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow with his research lab based in the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit. He is known for his expertise in rare inherited diseases that affect the nervous system.

Prof. Nathalie Kingston

Director

Prof. Nathalie Kingston manages a multi-skilled team leading on the recruitment and recall of volunteers, the collection and storage of biological samples, clinical and genomic data, as well as the IT infrastructure underpinning all BioResource operations.

Nathalie has a PhD in Immunology from the University of Strathclyde and subsequently joined the University of Cambridge to carry out research in autoimmune and infectious diseases. She then worked at the Wellcome Sanger Institute as the Director’s Executive Assistant, before joining the BioResource in 2013.

Hannah Stark

Operations Lead

Hannah Stark leads the Operations team, which is responsible for the coordination of recruitment across all NIHR BioResource programmes. The team support recruitment sites and BioResource Centres recruiting into the BioResource and answers questions from members of the public and volunteers. The team also supports academic and industry researchers in inviting BioResource volunteers to their studies and ensuring they run to time and target.

Dr. Kathy Stirrups

Head of Samples

Dr Kathy Stirrups leads the Samples team, which is responsible for the bio-banking of samples from new participants for future research studies and the extraction and quality control of DNA before generation of genetic data. She also oversees the feasibility and then provision of samples to research groups according to the project specification and manages bespoke projects such as whole genome (WGS) or RNA sequencing to assess the translation of these techniques into health systems.

Kathy has held a number of academic and small biotech roles specialising in assays and bio-banking of DNA, RNA, proteins and biological samples. Her PhD is in Molecular Virology from the University of Reading.

Danielle Walker

Business Manager

Danielle Walker leads the Business Management function, providing professional support services to the NIHR BioResource. The teams within Business Management are responsible for HR, Finance, Business Administration, and Communications. We support a wide breadth of tasks within these areas, including pre and post award funding management, contracts and procurement, provide day to day office management, travel booking, arrange training and events, and manage the staff recruitment process just to name a few. We are the first point of contact for staff on all the above, and if we don’t know the answer, we know who to speak to.

Dr. Heather Ramsay

Strategic Development and Enterprise Lead

Heather Ramsay leads the Business Development team, which liaises with industry researchers, facilitating their BioResource access requests and providing support through the application and contracting processes. The team also engages both industry and academic researchers through conferences and symposia, presentations about the BioResource, and through networking events.
Heather has held similar industry liaison roles in the UK and US and was previously a biomedical researcher in discovery, efficacy, and toxicology research. She has a PhD in biological anthropology from the University of Missouri.

Menelaos Ioannidis

Senior Programme Manager

Menelaos Ioannidis oversees and drives the successful delivery of projects and programmes, across the organisation, ensuring transparency and accountability across programmes. He also supports the development of plans, milestones, and roadmaps to align delivery with strategic objectives, as well as facilitates communication, and informed decision-making across leadership and teams.

Menelaos has held similar roles previously and has experience in managing the end-to-end delivery of programmes and projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and to the expected quality, managing multi-disciplinary teams, driving strategic objectives, and fostering collaboration.

Jane Monk

PA to the Director

Jane Monk provides administrative and PA support to the Director of NIHR BioResource and administrative support to the Senior Management Team reporting to the Director. Her role includes diary management, managing, circulating and responding to daily incoming information, arranging travel and accommodation, handling expenses claims, and arranging meetings and events as required including venues and catering and acting as meeting secretary, preparing agendas and papers, minute taking and following up on actions.

Jane has over 35 years PA/Secretarial and administrative expertise within both public and private sector organisations.

Meet the Team

The BioResource Leadership Team

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