Shamshad Cockcroft

Education Cockcroft earned a degree in Biological Chemistry at the University of Manchester in 1974 and completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham in 1977.

Research Cockcroft's research and work investigates intracellular lipid traffic, interfaces club and lipids in cell signalling and membrane traffic.

Cockcroft was awarded a fellowship from the Lister Institute in 1986 and established the Lipid Signalling Group at UCL. She was previously Chair in Cell Biology at UCL and was awarded a programme grant by the Wellcome Trust.

Personal life Cockcroft was born in Zanzibar, but moved to the United Kingdom aged 18 following the Zanzibar Revolution. She faced problems when she tried to apply for university, having only four O-levels in Maths, English, British Constitution and Geography. She had to do her A-levels in a grammar school in the UK. She was inspired to pursue a career in science by reading biographies of scientists, including William Harvey and Marie Curie.

She is married to Laurence Cockcroft and has three children: Jasmine, Jacob and Joshua.