Cristina Lo Celso
GROUP LEADER - SATELLITE
Cristina Lo Celso grew up in Torino and graduated from Torino University. She obtained her PhD from UCL, working with Fiona Watt at the CRUK London Research Institute, where she studied epidermal stem cells.
She started performing intravital microscopy of the haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niche during her postdoctoral training at Harvard University with David Scadden.
In 2009 she started her independent research group at Imperial College London, where she is now a professor in the Department of Life Sciences, and one of the network leads of the Imperial Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Network.
Cristina first established a satellite laboratory at the Crick in 2016, and in 2021 she became co-director of the Imperial College Centre for Haematology. Her research aims to understand the mechanisms regulating HSC function during steady state and during stresses such as infections, leukaemia and transplantation.
Her interdisciplinary approach combines mouse bone marrow intravital microscopy techniques, computational image analysis, molecular profiling and mathematical modelling of the HSC niche. She has been awarded over £7 million in funding over the years and her publications have been cited more than 5500 times.
She is the first woman to have received the Foulkes Medal award (2017), received the ISEH New Investigator award in 2017, presented the DGZ Carl Zeiss Lecture 2018 and received the Royal Microscopical Society Life Sciences Medal 2019. She regularly engages in outreach activities and is keen to interact with the public, patients and industry.
