I have worked at CCCU since 2014 and I am now a Principal Lecturer in Cancer Biology, Deputy section Director for Natural and Applied Sciences in the School of Psychology and Life Sciences and Course Director for levels 5 and 6 of our Bioscience suite. I am a Cancer Researcher investigating venoms to look for new cancer therapies in humans and canines in particular for breast and pancreatic cancer. I also undertake research into animal husbandry and welfare including investigating cortisol levels and stress in spiders, scorpions and dogs.
I have also been an Associate Lecturer with the Open University and was responsible for a tutorial group undertaking Introducing Health Sciences (SDK125). I ran face to face tutorials, online tutorials using Elluminate and forums. I also graded the tutor marked assignments for the module and provided telephone and e-mail support to my tutorial group.
My previous role was as an Administrator in the Faculties Support Office, at the University of Kent involved advising Schools on procedures according to the Academic Regulations, Code of Practice, Credit Framework and Quality Assurance.
As a post-doc I undertook a project entitled 'Enhancing the expression of recombinant sodium channels' and was in collaboration Neusentis. In my previous project in the Smales lab I was utilising novel approaches to develop predictive tools for the isolation of highly productive recombinant cell lines. Previously I undertook a MSc. in Biochemistry, based in the Nuclear Medicine department at Kent and Canterbury hospital, developing an improved method to label leucocytes to image infection and inflammation. My PhD was undertaken at Kent using a proteomic approach to discover and investigate possible surrogate markers to determine drug activity of tyrosine kinase inhibitors targeting the EGF receptor in the treatment of cancer. My first post doctoral post with Professor Bill Gullick investigated the role of the Neuregulins in the nucleus using low light digital microscopy and mutational analysis.