Team

Prof Sandrine Thuret │ Lab Head

Professor Thuret is Head of the Neurogenesis and Mental Health Laboratory and Deputy Head of the Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, UK. She is Chair of King’s Research…

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr Chiara de Lucia

Chiara completed her BSc in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Southampton followed by her MSc in Neuroscience at King’s College London. She then carried out her PhD in the Thuret laboratory at the IoPPN of King’s College London. She is now a postdoctoral Research Fellow…

Dr Sahand Farmand

Sahand completed his BSc in biomedical sciences at the University of Westminster. Followingly, he completed his MSc in Biomedical and…

PhD Students

Gargi Mandal

Gargi’s experiences in working with patients in a rural healthcare setting in India prompted her to study for a Bachelor’s in Biomedical…

Luca Besso

Luca Besso is an MRC-DTP PhD student investigating cell-type-specific genes underlying brain ageing and Alzheimer’s.

Zarah Haniff

Zarah is a KCL Wellcome PhD fellow in mental health research for healthcare professionals and is a GPhC-registered Pharmacist. She…

Dr Lucia Batzu

Dr. Lucia Batzu is a Clinical Research Fellow at King’s College London and the Parkinson’s Foundation Centre of Excellence, King’s College Hospital, London. She…

Thuret Lab Alumni

  • Dr Tinne Nissen
  • Dr Andrea Du Preez
  • Dr Daniel Rock
  • Dr Curie Kim
  • Dr Hyunah Lee
  • Dr Aleksandra Maruszak
  • Dr Gisele Dias
  • Dr Thomas Berger
  • Dr Alessandra Borsini
  • Dr Alish Palmos
  • Dr Tytus Murphy 
  • Dr Demelza Smeeth
  • Dr Ksenia Musaelyan
  • Dr Amina McDiarmid
  • Dr Doris Stangl
  • Dr Edina Silajdžić
  • Dr Lucia Batzu
  • Dr Vikki Houghton
  • Marleigh Smith
  • Melody Smith
  • Jingfa Zhang
  • Charlotte Rupp
  • Maria Gutierrez
  • Katrine Gaasdal-Bech
  • Kirsten Brady 
  • Karina Hoffmann
  • Clara Zourray
  • Cecile Taylor
  • Hajer Bachi
  • Hasinah Butt
  • Margarida Baptista
  • Toby Sagasby 
  • Cameron James Black 
  • Gitanjali Ramchandani 
  • Do Rae Lee
  • Monzer El-Sharnouby 
  • Nadhrah MohamedIzmi
  • Jiayi Huang
  • Sandra Shibu
  • Veronica Miskowaick Paludan Beckvard
  • Yufeng Zhuo
  • Shenuka Manamperige
  • Thomas Eve