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Melanie Proven

Melanie is the Principal Clinical Scientist leading the haemoglobinopathy and rare anaemias team at the National Haemoglobinopathies Reference Laboratory. Following her PhD in Genetics at Cambridge, she began working as a Clinical Scientist in the Oxford Regional Genomics Laboratory in 2004, specialising in haematological inherited disorders from 2014. She forms the core of the Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Support Service, in combination with colleagues Jenny Eglinton and Michelle Rugless, who have both worked in haemoglobinopathies for over a decade.