Ali Kay

Ali joined the CPM in September 2023. She is currently a co-investigator on an NIHR Research for Patient Benefit funded project – iPREGCARE. This project is investigating the implications of a new personalised recurrence risk assessment for couples who have had a child with a serious genetic condition.

Ali has over ten years experience in patient advocacy and engagement in research and is a current EUPATI fellow. She is committed to both evidencing the experience of patients and families with personalised medicine and also effective public involvement and engagement with research. She is the co-lead of the Making it Personal engagement project – utilising theatre to spark conversations on what it is like to live with genetic risk.

Ali completed her doctorate at Nuffield College, Oxford and later gained an MSc in Genetic and Genomic Counselling from Cardiff University. She has worked at the University of Oxford since 2022 and previously as a research fellow at Northumbria University, King’s College London, and the University of Westminster and also held teaching positions at Lancaster University and the Open University.

Susie Weller

Susie Weller was appointed Deputy Director of the CPM in July 2026. Her current work forms part of the ‘Ethical Preparedness in Genomic Medicine’ study (Wellcome Trust, 2018-25), which combines conceptual, empirical, and theoretical work to examine the ethical and social challenges that arise for those living and working with genetic and genomic results. Susie draws on a range of conceptual tools from family and lifecourse sociology and employs qualitative longitudinal research approaches to explore, over time, interactions between individuals, those within their networks, and the wider social processes and structures shaping their experiences. She is particularly interested in: how patients and families navigate different routes through genomic medicine; the resources and support on which they draw to manage the process; how participants conceive of their data journey; and how caring relationships, identities and practices evolve over time.

Thea Perry

Thea joined the Centre for Personalised Medicine in 2015 and is responsible for coordinating the Centre’s programme of events and supporting its wider communications and engagement activities.

In her role as Events Co-ordinator, Thea organises a varied programme of events bringing together researchers, clinicians, students and wider audiences to explore different aspects of personalised medicine. Her work spans everything from seminars and workshops to larger conferences and public lectures, and she enjoys the variety involved in taking events from the initial idea through to delivery.

Alongside the events programme, Thea manages the CPM website and social media channels, helping to share the Centre’s work, activities and opportunities with its different audiences.

Thea has a degree in Events Management, and her experience at CPM has given her a particular interest in creating engaging events and communications that bring people together and make complex areas of research accessible to wider audiences.

Anneke Lucassen

Anneke was appointed Director of the CPM in August 2021. Anneke trained in Medicine and specialised in Clinical Genetics. After a DPhil identifying genetic factors in diabetes, she set up an interdisciplinary research programme exploring the ethical, legal and social aspects of integrating advances in genetics (and other forms of big data) into healthcare and society. She is consultant in the Oxford Clinical Genetics Service.

Anneke established and remains on the Steering Committee for the Genethics Forum, a national initiative for health professionals and colleagues from the social sciences, law, and the humanities who work with – or are interested in – the practical ethical and legal issues that arise in day-to-day clinical and research practice in genetics and genomics.

Much more information on Anneke’s research can be found here.