Wednesday, 1st May 2013
Starts: 1 May 2013

Dr Vas Ponnambalam
Endothelial Cell Biology Unit - Leeds University
Understanding and manipulating VEGF-regulated blood vessel growth and repair in health and disease
Career profile/biography:
1981-1984 Biochemistry BSc, University of Birmingham, UK
1984-1988 Biochemistry PhD with Prof. Steve Busby FRS, School of Biosciences, Univ. of Birmingham, UK.
1988-1991 Seebe Fund Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Peter Parham FRS, Dept. of Structural Biology, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California, USA.
1991-1995 CRUK Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Graham Warren FRS (now Director of the Max Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria), CRUK, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, UK.
1995-2000 Medical Research Council Senior Non-Clinical Research Fellow & Principal Investigator, Division of Immunology & Cell Biology, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, UK.
2000-2005 Lecturer in Molecular Cell Biology, School of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Leeds, UK.
2005-2011 Senior Lecturer in Molecular Cell Biology, School of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Leeds, UK.
2011- Reader in Human Disease Biology, Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, UK.
More information including publications can be obtained here:
http://www.astbury.leeds.ac.uk/people/staffpage.php?StaffID=VP
Location
Redwood 2.60c (NLT)
2.30pm. Refreshments from 2.20pm
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Other information
Open To: Staff and Students
