Toby Andrews

Toby Andrews is an IDRM Transition Fellow affiliated with the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford. Toby obtained a BSc in Anatomy, Developmental and Human Biology from King’s College London. He then moved to Cambridge on a Wellcome Trust MPhil/PhD studentship in Developmental Mechanisms, where he developed quantitative imaging approaches to study the evolution of developmental mechanisms shaping the vertebrate long body axis. Toby then joined the Organ Morphodynamics Laboratory at The Francis Crick Institute as a postdoctoral fellow, where he used the zebrafish as a model system to dissect mechanical regulation of organ shape and size. Toby’s work combines advanced microscopy, morphometrics and experimental embryology to understand how the heart adapts its form and function to extrinsic challenges experienced during embryonic development and across a lifetime.