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Office for Translational Research

 

Dr Anita Marguerie de Rotrou  
Dr Marguerie de Rotrou is Head of the OTR, strategically setting the vision of the OTR with stakeholders, managing the team and advising on how to handle difficult cases. Anita has oversight of the overall project portfolio handled by the office and leads trouble-shooting where necessary. With a PhD in developmental biology (UCL), a postdoc at Cancer Research UK, 10 years’ experience in SMEs at operational, management and scientific levels, her expertise notably includes: setting up start-ups from scratch, product development, fund raising from investors, government, EU, public and private sectors. She joined the OTR in 2015 and was appointed as Head two years later.

Email: am2444@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 335650

Ms Ewa Czekaj
Ms Czekaj is Assistant Project Manager/Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead. She manages the AIM HY Consortium and co-ordinates PPI and PPE activities of the OTR’s projects. Previously, Ewa was providing administrative support for all members of OTR, managing websites, as well as taking care of the logistics for a portfolio of projects run by the OTR. She was also responsible for organising meetings and arranging events related to industry and academic collaborations.

Email: ec588@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 748091

Ms Glenda Harden
Ms Glenda Harden is a Research Administrator in the OTR, managing secretarial and administration duties for the OTR’s events and projects.  She has much experience working as a PA/Secretary in academia and industry including the National Environmental Research Council, having worked as a Project Administrator with the British Antarctic Survey.  She has extensive experience organising meetings and arranging events at an academic level.  Glenda spent time abroad working as PA for BHP Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited in Melbourne, BHP is one of the world’s largest mining companies in Australia.

Email: gh392@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Ms Cathy MacLean
Cathy MacLean is a Translational Research Project Manager in the OTR. With a background in Clinical Laboratory Science, and later an MBA in Health Services Management, Cathy has many years of experience working in the field of clinical research. She has also completed several courses in project management, including both the Foundation and Practitioner level of PRINCE2. Cathy has managed clinical trials and research studies at local, national, and international levels, across multiple therapeutic areas, and engaged with stakeholders at all levels of the project process including funding bodies, pharmaceutical and non-commercial sponsors, regulatory authorities, ethics committees, clinical research networks, local R&D departments, and clinical staff.

Email: cm939@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 748091

Ms Zoe McIntyre
Zoe is a Translational Research Project Manager in the OTR. Having qualified as a clinical lab scientist and obtained a research masters in Biochemistry, Zoe worked with the Mouse Genetics Project in the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute before moving into research project coordination at the University of Cambridge. She joined the OTR in 2019, bringing several years’ experience in the coordination and management of academic clinical studies. Zoe has particular expertise in the area of project planning and costing, and research study set-up, as well as project management and operational support at all stages of the project life cycle. She has recently qualified as an Associate Project Manager through the Association for Project Management.  

Email: zm276@medschl.cam.ac.uk 

Dr Luis Pennanen
Luis currently manages Cambridge’s Experimental Medicine Initiative as well as the Sunway-Cambridge Collaboration. He is also the contact person for AIMday and for the STAR TRACK project as part of the LMU-Cambridge Strategic Partnership. Before joining the OTR in 2022, Luis supported early-stage start-up projects as coordinator of the entrepreneurship centre at Pforzheim University in Germany and oversaw its grant portfolio. He holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Zurich.

Email: ljcp2@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 748091

Dr Alex Samoshkin
After defending his PhD in 2006; Alex worked in four different world class biomedical research laboratories, in cancer (at the NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA) and neuroscience biology (UNC, Chapel Hill, USA and McGill University, Montreal, Canada), where he mastered multidisciplinary projects on basic, translational and drug discovery sciences.  Alex moved to Cambridge in 2017 as a Translational Technology Manager, and currently works in the new Greater Cambridge Health Tech Connect UEZ initiative.  The main purpose of this initiative is to connect West (Physical Sciences and Technology) and South (Biomedical) hubs, bringing together a community with stakeholders from the Univesity, Research Institutes, NHS, industry, investors, government and beyond. 

Email: as2794@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 336802

Office for Translational Research
School of Clinical Medicine
University of Cambridge
Box 111, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge CB2 0SP

Email: translation@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Enquiries: OTR Enquiry Form