Cell scientist to watch - Meritxell Huch.

After completing her BSc in pharmacology at University of Barcelona, Spain, Meritxell Huch pursued her PhD in the laboratory of Cristina Fillat at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona. Wanting to move into more basic research, Meri trained as a postdoc with Hans Clevers at the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands. In her postdoctoral research, she successfully established a liver organoid culture that earned her the National Centre for Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) prize in 2013. Meri joined the Gurdon Institute in February 2014 and is currently a Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow. She is interested in the mechanisms responsible for adult tissue regeneration in the liver and the pancreas, particularly in identifying stem cell populations that respond to damage and the intracellular mechanisms regulating their activation.