Prof. Cristina Lo Celso, FMedSci (Laboratory Head)
Cristina Lo Celso FMedSci trained at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute and Harvard University. In 2009 she started her independent research group at Imperial College London, where she is now Professor of Stem Cell Biology in the department of Life Sciences, and co-director of the Centre for Haematology in the department of Immunology and Inflammation.
She pioneered the use of intravital microscopy and quantitative imaging to achieve the first observations of haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) - and leukaemia-niche interactions in situ in real time, and of infection- and leukaemia- driven changes in HSC-niche interactions, highlighting the bone marrow microenvironment as a potential therapeutic target. She contributed to uncovered multi-cellular dynamics in healthy and malignant BM microenvironments and beyond. Her interdisciplinary approach combines mouse bone marrow intravital microscopy techniques, computational image analysis, molecular profiling and mathematical modelling of the HSC niche. Prof. Lo Celso’s publications have been cited over 9,000 times.
She is the first woman to have received the Foulkes Medal award (2017); she received the ISEH New Investigator award in 2017, presented the DGZ Carl Zeiss Lecture 2018 and received the Royal Microscopical Society Life Sciences Medal 2019. She received the Australian Intravital Microscopy Symposium Goppert-Mayer medal in 2023. She regularly engages in outreach activities and is keen to interact with the public, patients and industry. She has contributed to several high impact public engagement activities including the Imperial Festival (thousands of visitors over a weekend); ‘Beautiful Science’ and ‘Illumination’ art collaborative projects; podcasts e.g., Naked Scientist; AMS SciLives website. She launched the Imperial Centre for Haematology acute leukaemia PPIE program. She is a member of the Francis Crick Institute.
Members
Post Doctoral Researcher
Floriane Tissot (Post Doctoral Fellow)
PhD Students
Samantha Atkinson
Federica Bruno
Germaine Chia (Clinical PhD Student)
Xuanxuan Esme Fan
Cera Mai
Laboratory Technician Apprentice
Bronwen Franklin Pierce
Close collaborators
Penny Sparkes (Research Associate)
Lucy Doherty (Research Technician)
Alastar Phelan (PhD student)
If you are interested in joining the group as a PhD student or posdtoctoral researcher please get in touch (c.lo-celso@imperial.ac.uk).
We do not have open positions at the moment, but you may be eligible for support to apply for your own funding.
Post Doctoral Researcher
Constandina Pospori
Narges Rashidi
Folake Akinduro
Heather Ang
Reema Khorshed
Edwin Hawkins
Clinical Post Doctoral Fellow
Richard J Burt
George Adams
PhD Students
Sophie James
Aideen O’Neill
Christiana Georgiou
Yuyang Yan
Marine Secchi
Sara González Antón
Flora Birch
Andrew Killeen
George Adams
Andrea Marra
Ben Partridge
Chiara Pirillo
Myriam Haltalli
Delfim Duarte
Research Technician and Lab Manager
Nicola Ruivo
Project Manager
Sara Marques
Technician
Dimitris Stampoulis
Mark Scott
Visiting students
Celia Sergi
Emanuel Quartin
Letizia Vainieri
This is a partial snapshot of previous students that have rotated through the lab. It is a work in progress, if you don’t find your name or would like to suggest an edit please contact Mandy Smith (a.sale[at]imperial.ac.uk).
Master’s students
Current students
Yacht Sanyawut
Clara Zhang
Ziqi (Angel) Yan
Past students
Seljan Khatun Abdullazade
Yanisa Kiatsuksri
Arnav Gore
Flavia Zhou
Isha Doiphode
Xiaotong Liu
Sanjida Begum
Sanika Gupta
Audrey Au Yong Onn Yi
Ecem Kirkiz
Alba Rodriguez Meira
Zahra Aboukhalil
Thomas Williams
William Foster
Laura Mosteo Lopez
Rui (Rachel) Wong
Sandra Sullivan
Katie Sloan
Eric Rutten
Emily Whettlock
Julia Bandiak
Maria-Nefeli Skoufou-Papoutsaki
Katherine Sloan
Jack Hopkins
Chrysi Christodoulidou
Francesca Hearn-Yeates
Undergraduate students
Past students
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme
Owen Jenner
Elijah Cui
Final Year Project students
Gulunah Hashmi
Charlotte-Alexine Hawley
Jay O’Hanlon
Emily Worby
Angela Izquierdo
Amy Jones
Clara Maton Peccia Galletto
Ray Safarova
Xinyi Gao
Olufemi Lijadu
Megan Sallows
Niamh Goldsmith
Soha Ismail
James Che
Ivan Croydon Veleslavov
Rosie Woodruff
MBBS BSc Haematology Students
Tania Podoprigora
Haram Saouri
Georgia Koudigkeli
Stephanie Lapitan
Kavyesh Vivek
Lucy Bett