Irene Roberts MD

Irene Roberts has been Professor of Paediatric Haematology in the Department of Paediatrics since October 2013. She was previously Professor of Paediatric Haematology at Imperial College London. She is also a Group Leader in the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine where she is based in the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit. She has a longstanding interest in the impact of trisomy 21 on hematopoiesis and her group studies how the biological and molecular properties of fetal stem and progenitor cells provide the permissive cellular context for leukemia in early childhood.