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Franchesca Houghton became fascinated with Developmental Biology during her undergraduate studies in Biomedical Sciences. This led her to pursue a DPhil in embryo metabolism at the University of York under the supervision of Professor Henry Leese. She then took a post-doctoral position with Professor Gerald Kidder at the University of Western Ontario, where she studied the assembly and role of gap junctions in development. Houghton returned to the University of York for further post-doctoral studies before being awarded the Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship. This enabled her to establish her own research group focusing on nutrition and mammalian preimplantation embryos. In 2006, she was appointed as a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton and later promoted to Associate Professor in 2008. Her research has expanded within the pluripotent stem cell field, particularly on the mechanisms that regulate self-renewal and differentiation of stem cells.
University of Southampton • Southampton, England
Leads research group focused on understanding mechanisms regulating maintenance and differentiation of pluripotent stem cells.
University of Southampton • Southampton, England
Focused on teaching and research in the Faculty of Medicine.
University of Western Ontario • Canada
Studied assembly and role of gap junctions in development.