Staff Profile

Dr Simone Webb is a Royal Society Career Development Fellow in the Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University. She is interested in how blood and immune formation is regulated by the nervous system in development. Her Fellowship will take ‘A systems approach to unravel neural regulation of embryonic haematopoiesis’.

Expertise: bioinformatics, single cell analysis, immunology, haematopoiesis

Education and qualifications

• 2021 - Simone completed her PhD in Bioinformatics and Immunology at the Haniffa Lab, Newcastle University, where she specialised in analysing single cell multiomic data to characterise bone marrow haematopoiesis in human fetal life. Her doctoral research contributed to the Human Cell Atlas Development initiative and was published in Nature in September 2021. She was awarded the Newcastle University Faculty Medical Sciences Doctoral Thesis Prize (2022) and also received an Honourable Mention for the International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Research in Molecular Life Sciences (2021) and Doctoral Researchers Award in Natural and Life Sciences (2022). She is continuing in this field for her postdoctorate.
• 2018 - She completed her undergraduate Masters degree in Biological Sciences at University College London with a First Class Honours. During her undergraduate, she completed an exchange programme for a year at the University of Queensland, Australia. She was funded by a competitive Harold and Olga Fox scholarship.

Formal roles: NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre: ‘Informatics and Precision Care for an Ageing Population’ Theme (Member c. 2024)

Peer reviewer: Blood (c. 2024), Nature Medicine (c. 2024), European Journal Immunology (c. 2024)

Memberships: Genetics Society (c. 2017); Microbiology Society (c. 2017); British Society Immunology (c. 2018)

Publications: Simone's research papers can also be found using her ORCID or Google Scholar profile.