DrMichelle Percharde
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Institute of Clinical Sciences - Faculty of Medicine
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- Honorary Senior LecturerInstitute of Clinical Sciences - Faculty of Medicine
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- CRB 2006 / 2013, Hammersmith Hospital, Hammersmith Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
email: m.percharde@imperial.ac.uk
Dr Michelle Percharde is an epigenetics and stem cell biologist and head of the Chromatin and Development Group at the MRC LMS.
Her work focuses on understanding the interplay between transposable elements, chromatin regulation and cell fate choices during early development.
She carried out her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and PhD in reprogramming and nuclear receptors at Imperial College, London. In 2013, she moved to UCSF in San Francisco, USA, and was awarded a CIRM postdoctoral fellowship to carry out her postdoctoral training with Prof. Miguel Ramalho-Santos. She moved to Imperial College as an independent fellow in 2018 and became a core-funded group leader at the MRC LMS and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in 2019. She is an honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College.
She is passionate about promoting the inclusion and success of women and other minority groups in science. She is an official mentor with the Imperial College Activate mentoring programme since 2022/3, and helped start the MRC LMS' first Roving Researcher scheme to provide cover for researchers going on leave, such as maternity leave.
Dr Michelle Percharde is an epigenetics and stem cell biologist and head of the Chromatin and Development Group at the MRC LMS.
Her work focuses on understanding the interplay between transposable elements, chromatin regulation and cell fate choices during early development.
She carried out her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and PhD in reprogramming and nuclear receptors at Imperial College, London. In 2013, she moved to UCSF in San Francisco, USA, and was awarded a CIRM postdoctoral fellowship to carry out her postdoctoral training with Prof. Miguel Ramalho-Santos. She moved to Imperial College as an independent fellow in 2018 and became a core-funded group leader at the MRC LMS and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in 2019. She is an honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College.
She is passionate about promoting the inclusion and success of women and other minority groups in science. She is an official mentor with the Imperial College Activate mentoring programme since 2022/3, and helped start the MRC LMS' first Roving Researcher scheme to provide cover for researchers going on leave, such as maternity leave.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- UKRI Future Leaders FellowMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, United Kingdom1 May 2019 - present
- Hon. senior lecturerImperial College London, London, United Kingdom1 Jan 2023 - present
- MRC Investigator, Programme leader trackMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, United Kingdom1 Jul 2024 - present
DEGREES
- PhDImperial College London, London, United Kingdom2 Feb 2013
- BA (Hons)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom1 Oct 2004 - 1 Jul 2007
FACULTY
- Faculty of Medicine
POSITION NAME
- Honorary Senior Lecturer