Submitted by J. Grosse on Tue, 27/05/2025 - 10:56
CIMR is delighted to announce the appointment of a new PI, Dr Jennifer Dickens.
Jenny is an active clinician, balancing her research work on the molecular mechanisms of pulmonary fibrosis with clinical work as a respiratory physician at Royal Papworth Hospital. While working in Prof. Stefan Marciniak’s lab on an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship, she has been developing significant independent lines of research and funding and has recently developed, working with Dr Emma Rawlins at the Gurdon Institute, an exciting new alveolar organoid model. Now independently funded by Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis, GSK and LifeArc, Jenny will be exploiting these and other tools to understand how misfolding or mistrafficking of surfactant proteins causes respiratory diseases, with the goal of developing new therapeutic approaches to help her patients.
A novel alveolar organoid model to study surfactant protein C (SFTPC) trafficking in health and its mislocalisation caused by expression of a pathogenic variant
Jenny is also a keen runner and recently completed the Cambridge half marathon, running for the charity Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis
