Tom Hewat

Tom is a PhD student based at the University of Exeter, supervised by Dr Sarah Flanagan and Dr Emma Dempster. He graduated from the University of Exeter in the summer of 2019 with a BSc in Medical Sciences (Human Genomics). During his undergraduate degree, he completed a summer placement within the epigenetics lab at the RILD, where he shadowed Sam Washer in his work investigating functional epigenomics and schizophrenia. His dissertation focussed on the use of whole genome sequencing data to uncover novel causes of congenital hyperinsulinism with Dr Thomas Laver. His PhD project is to investigate the role of DNA methylation in congenital disorders of insulin secretion, based on Level 3 of the RILD with Dr Flanagan’s group.