Welcome to White Lab

Welcome to White Lab, and thank you for visiting.

This website is the new home of my research group at King’s College London. White Lab is still in its early stages, which makes this a particularly exciting moment: the science is taking shape, the lab is growing, and this feels like the right time to create a space that brings the work together and opens it up to others.

Our research focuses on a question that I find both scientifically fascinating and deeply important: what happens when the systems that control RNA in our cells begin to go wrong?

A major part of the lab’s work centres on RNA-binding proteins, which help cells decide how genetic information is processed and used. These systems are especially important in the brain, where cells depend on very finely balanced patterns of RNA regulation to stay healthy and function properly. When that balance is disturbed, the consequences can be profound.

In White Lab, we use human stem-cell-derived neurons, organoids and assembloids, together with transcriptomic and molecular approaches, to study these early changes in human models of brain disease. Our aim is to better understand how and why certain cells become vulnerable, and to help build a clearer path toward future therapeutic discovery.

One of the things that matters to me in building this lab is that the science should not feel closed off. Research like this depends on many communities: scientific colleagues and collaborators, of course, but also charities, funders, patients, families, students and members of the public who want to understand what the work is about and why it matters. I want this website to reflect that wider conversation.

So this site is not only here to share publications and updates. It is also here to explain the ideas behind the work, to show how the lab is growing, and to make the science more open, understandable and connected.

Over time, I hope this will become a useful home for research news, papers, talks, opportunities, and longer pieces of writing about the questions, models and approaches that shape the lab’s direction.

For now, though, this first post is simply a way of saying hello, and of opening the door.

Whether you are a researcher, student, supporter, patient, family member, funder, or simply someone curious about the science, you are very welcome here.