Christiana Ruhrberg PhD

Christiana Ruhrberg conducted her PhD research with Fiona Watt at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF; now the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute). She was named Young Cell Biologist of the Year 1996 by the British Society for Cell Biology for her work on proteins that promote epidermal barrier function. Christiana Ruhrberg received postdoctoral training in the laboratories of Robb Krumlauf at the National Institute of Medical Research to study cranial motor neuron development and then David Shima at the ICRF to elucidate molecular mechanisms of blood vessel growth.
In 2003, she received the Werner-Risau-Prize for outstanding contributions to endothelial cell biology from the German Society for Cell Biology and a Career Development Award from the Medical Research Council to study neurovascular co-patterning at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology of University College London. She is now Professor of Neuronal and Vascular Biology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, where she holds a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award to investigate neurovascular interactions in the brain and retina during development and in disease. Christiana is also an Editor for PLoS One and a member of the Faculty of 1000.