Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Profile

Qualifications

BSc (Hons). MSc. PGCLTHE, CSci. FIBMS, FHEA.

Current University post held

Senior Lecturer

Internal memberships / posts

Deputy course leader BSc (Hons) Applied Biomedical Science
Member of the Course Leaders Committee

Member of the Board of Studies

MSc Examination approval committee

Undergraduate tutor

MSc tutor

External memberships

Member of the British Society for Haematology Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science

Chartered Scientist

HPC registered Biomedical Scientist

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Key teaching responsibilities

Unit coordinator for:

BSc: Level 2: Haematology and Immunohaematology.

Level 3: Haematology.

MSc Biomedical Science: Haematology and Transplantation.

Teaching responsibilities in:

BSc: Level 1: Computing, mathematics and laboratory skills in the life sciences.

Level 2: Biomedical Science in Practice;

Level 3: Biology of Disease

MSc: Haematology 1

Integrated Pathology

Nutrition health and disease

Biomedical Science Placement (placement tutor)

Key research interests

Comparative cellular and molecular studies of Primary Central Nervous System lymphoma and metastatic lymphoma of the brain. The identification of tumour invasion patterns and candidate adhesion molecules facilitating tissue invasion using malignant lymphocytes derived from central nervous and peripheral blood tissues. Microspheroid cell culture techniques, immunocytochemistry and laser capture microdissection are some of the techniques available for these investigations.

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications Before 2006

Knight GWA, McLellan D. Use and limitations of imatinib mesylate (Glivec), a selective inhibitor of the tyrosine kinase Abl transcript in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia. Br J Biomed Sci 2004; 61 (2): 103-111