OCEHL is based in the University of Oxford Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health.
Led by Prof. Fadil Hannan, OCEHL Director, the team comprises: a lead research practitioner, clinical research assistants, postdoctoral scientists, research students and a project manager.
We are located within the Women’s Centre of the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
LRF OCEHL Director
Postdoctoral Researcher
Postdoctoral Researcher
DPhil Researcher
Michelle.ma@wrh.ox.ac.uk
Research Assistant
Project Manager
Clinical Research Team
Amy Archer, Lead Research Practitioner (centre), Emily Hillier (left) and Sam Ewers (right), Clinical Research Assistants - all working on INSIGHT.
Hussam was a incredibly productive member of the OCEHL team whilst conducting his DPhil in the endocrinology of human lactation.
Michelle was an MRes student co-supervised by Prof Manu Vatish.
Abena was a visting student working on mammary hormone receptor expression.
Alex led the development of the NECTAR and INSIGHT projects during her time at LRF OCEHL. In particular she launched the main phase of the INSIGHT study and built the clinical research team that has recruited well over 200 study participants.
Magdalena was a visiting researcher working with Taha Elajnaf on mammary cell imaging.
Rob joined LRF OCEHL as a trainee doctor to undertake a 12 month part-time MSc research project entitled “Endocrine regulation of mammary cell metabolism”. Rob also worked closely with the rest of the team to help process the samples for the INSIGHT Study.
Christie undertook a research project as part of her MSc course in Clinical Embryology (2021-22). Her project focused on the hormonal regulation of mammary metabolism.
Eve had a UNIQ+ graduate internship at LRF OCEHL. She assessed the effect of hormones on gene expression in mammary cells.
Helen was part of the founding team that set up OCEHL in 2019. She was responsible for establishing all OCEHL’s clinical studies during her time, including: NECTAR, INSIGHT and other survey based tools investigating the role of hormones in lactation.
Maya joined OCEHL as a 3rd year Oxford medical student to do a full-time 8 week research project entitled: “Expression analysis of mammary signalling factors during lactation”.
Skaai undertook a full-time research project in LRF OCEHL as part of an MSc Clinical Embryology.
Lois had a UNIQ+ graduate internship for two months at LRF OCEHL. Her project involved assessing mammary gene expression using publicly available datasets.
Juho was a biomedical undergraduate from Finland mainly working on assessing expression of hormones and hormone receptors in the mammary gland, as well as in silico analyses of RNA sequencing datasets of mammary tissue from various species.
Lizzie was completing an MSc in Clinical Embryology (2019-20) and while at LRF OCEHL, examined existing literature on how metabolic hormones impact lactation.
