Meet the people who make up STEM Faculty.
I did my PhD research at King's College, London.
Post-doctoral positions at King's College London, Guy's Hospital, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre (Imperial).
MRC Collaborative Career Development Fellowship in Stem Cell Research.
My lab works mainly on improving the effectiveness of the anti-cancer treatments photodynamic therapy (PDT) and radiotherapy. A full list of my research publications can be found at ORCID or Researchgate
I am the convenor of the OU Cancer Research Group.
A two-year clinical trial of our new combination PDT, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, began in October 2013. On the basis of the excellent trial results, this has been adopted as a standard treatment option by Cambridge Veterinary School.
2020: £16k OU funding to run a larger equine clinical trial, with a view to making the combination PDT technique a standard treatment option throughout the UK.
PI. Clinical trial of combination photodynamic therapy for equine sarcoids . European Society for Veterinary Dermatology (2013-2015). €20k
PI. Mechanisms of nanoparticle toxicity in normal and tumour cells. Industrial funding (2015-2018). £68k
Co-I. Targeting radiotherapy with DNA binding metal complexes and their attachment to gold nanoparticles. Royal Society of Chemistry (2015). £5k
Co-I. EU Framework 7 grant PEOPLE-2013-ITN ARGENT- Advanced Radiotherapy, Generated by Exploiting Nanoprocesses and Technologies (2014-2017). £3.65M
Patent: Nanoparticles and their uses in medicine. GB1423049.4 (23/12/2014)
My main teaching interest is in developing global online life sciences education.
SK297 production and presentation module chair (Infection, immunity and public health)
SK320 production and presentation module chair (Infectious disease and public health)
S390 module chair (STEM capstone project module)
Module author for T366 (Engineering on the Nanoscale)
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As a member of the Affiliated Research Centre Management Group, I work to ensure the excellent and equivalent provision of PhD student training across the world in our network of OU Affiliated Research Centres (ARCs) and to foster research relationships between to OU and ARCs.
