MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Wenhan Hu

Wenhan Hu

Wenhan has arrived in Joel’s lab in Jan 2026, fresh from a Masters at Imperial College in London, to start an ambitious PhD project of designing cyclic peptides using AI-driven computational approaches. If successful, this work will sit alongside our RaPID mRNA...
Lab baby alert!

Lab baby alert!

Shahnaz has decided that doing a PhD isn’t sufficiently challenging so she has upped the ante with the recent arrival of her (and her husband’s!) beautiful new baby Mehnaz! There is a strong consensus that her cheeks are very pinchable – so she may...