Junior Research Fellowship of Wolfson College 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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