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The overriding goal of the Mitchell Lab is to tackle medical questions through an interdisciplinary systems biology approach. We aim to combine models and experiments with the vast amount of data already generated and available in the literature to provide new insight into disease pathology and treatments. Particularly we focus on signaling, and how dysregualted cellular signaling leads to haematological malignancies.
The Mitchell Lab was founded in 2019 after Simon Mitchell joined Brighton and Sussex Medical School, within the Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department and as part of a rapidly growing haematology-oncology group-of-groups including Chris and Andrea Pepper.
When starting a group, PIs have two options for naming their group: - a group name describing the science - using their name as the group name. Both of these have issues. Using the PIs name can sound egotistical and self-promoting. While using a descriptive title can appear to be claiming a discipline for your own, despite other group's overlapping research interests. In the end, Simon decided "The Mitchell Lab" was best as he didn't want to claim to be "THE Systems Haematology Group" at BSMS. In addition, he hopes that this means any success he achieves are shared and seen as the Mitchell Group's successes. Finally, as Simon is an alumni of the "Signaling systems lab", which was always referred to by everyone as "The Hoffmann Lab", it doesn't seem to matter anyway!
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