Matthew Harper MA, PhD

Dr Matthew Harper read natural sciences at Cambridge and stayed to complete a PhD with Stewart Sage (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) on the regulation of calcium signalling in platelets. He moved to Alastair Poole’s group in Bristol to work on platelet granule secretion and thrombosis. Matthew is on the editorial board of the journals Platelets, Scientific Reports and Pharmacology Reviews and Perspectives, and is a founding trustee of The Platelet Society, a charity that promotes research and education about the roles of platelets in disease. In 2015 he was appointed to a lectureship in the Pharmacology Department. His current research focuses on understanding platelets in health and disease.

Matthew is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he supervises second year medics and vets taking the MoDA course. He is also the Admissions Tutor for Sciences. Queries related to undergraduate admissions should be directed at Cambridge Admissions Office or the Jesus College Admissions Office.