Congratulations to ADDovenom researcher Sophie Hall, a member of the Berger-Schaffitzel Lab at University of Bristol, who successfully defended her PhD and passed her viva in November 2024.

Her research focussed on the recombinant production and purification of Snake Venom Metalloproteinases. Sophie’s PhD was supervised by Prof Imre Berger and Prof Christiane Schaffitzel, and her examiners were Prof Jim Spencer (University of Bristol) and Dr Cassandra Modahl (LSTM).

Sophie is now working as a Research Associate on the Engineering Biology Mission Award project: ‘Haemotoxic and cytotoxic snake venom metalloproteinases – production, enzymatic specificity, snakebite treatment, and biomedical use’. This project is led by PI Prof Christiane Schaffitzel and Co-I Prof Nicholas Casewell.