Tom Schirris elected Junior Research Fellow

6 April 2017

Junior Research Fellowship of Wolfson College Cambridge

Tom Schirris, theme Mitochondrial diseases has been elected to a prestigious Junior Research Fellowship of Wolfson College, which is a leading academic research institution as one of the 31 colleges in the University of Cambridge.

Tom is currently studying mitochondrial transporters at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge and as a Junior Research Fellow of the College it is his duty to undertake postdoctoral work and promote scholarship in this subject. Tom’s formal admission as a Fellow will take place at the meeting of the Governing Body on 17 October 2017.

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