Our Team
Elena Torlai Triglia, PhD
Group leader
Elena trained as a computational and molecular biologist in the group of Prof. Ana Pombo at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (Germany), where she studied gene regulation in stem cells and during neuronal development. After her PhD, she moved to Boston (MA, US), where she studied how healthy cells change during disease development as a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, mentored by Prof. Brad Bernstein and Prof. Aviv Regev. Since Feb 2024, she is a Group Leader and Lecturer in Genetics, Genomics and Fundamental Cell Biology at QMUL.
Email: e.torlaitriglia@qmul.ac.uk
Tanzila Harun
PhD student - QMUL
Tanzila joined as a PhD student in the ETT Lab in May 2025 after completing a Masters in Biomedical and Molecular Sciences Research at King’s College London, where she characterised murine head and neck squamous carcinomas post fractionated radiotherapy. Her current research focuses on using computational and experimental approaches to study genetic and epigenetic regulation in melanomas.
Email: t.harun@qmul.ac.uk
Farah Sangkolah
Research Technician - QMUL
Farah graduated from Imperial College London with an MRes in Cancer Biology and was a research scientist at a London biotech startup where they worked on development of 3D ex vivo microtumour models. Farah has now joined the ETT lab as a research technician working on understanding the (epi)genetic bases of cell responses.
Email: n.bintisangkolah@qmul.ac.uk