We welcome Rasmus Hejlesen and Sreeja Mitra to the team!

This week, we welcome another two starts to the team!

Rasmus Hejlesen joins us as a postdoctoral researcher on the LifeArc Centre for Rare Respiratory Diseases, bringing his passion for genome editing. Rasmus recently completed his PhD at Aarhus University, DK where he used genome-edited zebrafish to investigate metabolism, muscle function, and respirometry. A self-proclaimed gene editing enthusiast, Rasmus is excited to apply these approaches in mammalian systems to develop new therapeutic strategies targeting rare respiratory disorders at their root cause.

Sreeja Mitra joins us as part of the 14-strong cohort of PhD students in CILIA-AI across Europe in the MSCA Doctoral training network looking to unraveling multi-scale Cilia Function in Health and Disease through innovative machine learning/AI approaches. Sreeja did her BSc in microbiology at Ramnarain Ruia College, India and then worked on a proteomics-based project in mitochondrial homeostasis at Advanced Centre of Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Mumbai, where she realized the importance of high-throughput technologies in enabling cell biology research. She recently completed her MSc in Genomic Data Science at the University of Leeds where she worked on benchmarking a novel algorithm for gene regulatory network inference on single-cell transcriptomic data.