Group Members
PI: Christian Jorgensen
Ben Franey, PhD student
Jerry Oluwasegun, MRes student
Elizabeth Oliphant, MRes student
Charley Gregory, MRes student
PI: Christian Jorgensen
Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences. Previously Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at Aarhus University in Denmark, funded by the European Commission. Prior to that I was a Postdoc in the United States, at Georgetown University in Washington DC and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.
PhD in Chemistry, King's College London (2018).
MChem, University of Oxford (2011). Member of Merton College.
FHEA, UK Higher Education Academy.
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Ben Franey, PhD student
PhD Student at the School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences. I began a faculty-funded PhD in October 2025, following a BSc (Hons) in Pharmacology from the University of Portsmouth (2025).
My research focuses on computational biology, combining molecular dynamics simulations, machine learning, and cheminformatics approaches.
Jerry Oluwasegun, MRes student
Jerry is an MRes student since Jan. 2025. His research interest is in the field of enhanced sampling simulations, including Steered Molecular Dynamics, Umbrella Sampling and others. He commands a broad range of knowledge of machine learning techniques too.
Elizabeth Oliphant, MRes student
Elizabeth is an MRes student since Sept. 2025. Her research interests are in enhancing the efficacy of precision medicine treatments in glioblastoma. Specifically, she is looking into the pharmacology of the P-glycoprotein efflux pump and its role in causing multidrug resistance towards chemotherapeutics. She uses both molecular dynamics and molecular docking to achieve this.
Charley Gregory, MRes student
Charley is an MRes enrolled in the 2024-2025 cohort. She is interested in the therapeutic pathways of glioblastoma, in particular the HDAC/CoREST complex that is upregulated in glioblastoma.
Batool Ishak,
MRes student
Batool is an MRes starting in the 2026-2027 January cohort.
Jorgensen Lab
School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
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