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Professional Activities

Commissions of trust & Memberships
Reviewer for grant funding bodies:
2017 - date: Expert remote referee for reviewing European Research Council Starting Grants.
2017 - date: Expert reviewer for grants from the Medical Research Council (MRC), UK.
2017 - date: Expert reviewer for grants from the Breast Cancer Now charity, UK.
2018 - date: Expert reviewer for grants from the French Research Council (INSERM).
2019 - date: Expert reviewer for grants from the Israel Science Foundation.

Member of Editorial board and scientific societies
2015 - date: Elected member of Frontiers in Cell & Developmental Biology editorial board.
2015 -date: Elected member of AcademiaNet – Expert international organisation of outstanding female academics.
2017 - date: Selected by the Academy of Medical Science to participate at the SUSTAIN programme.

Mentoring:
Since 2021: Elected mentor of junior academics in the SUSTAIN mentoring programme of the University of Birmingham.
Since 2016: Registered as a mentor at the University of Liverpool.

Public engagement
March 2015: “Women in Leadership lecture”. University of Liverpool, UK.
Dec 2014: LivWISE Chrismas Lecture, University of Liverpool, UK.
Since 2015: Organise workshops on the human body for primary schools.
Oct 2017: Creation of a video for the charity North West Cancer Research.

Selected Professional Activities

External Administrative or Committee Role

  • Mentor of junior academics in the SUSTAIN programme of the University of Birmingham (External Administrative or Committee Role)

Publication Review

  • Peer-reviewer for scientific journals, Invited (Nature Communications, Pre-publication) (Publication Review)
  • Peer-reviewer for scientific journals, Invited (Frontiers in Immunology, Pre-publication) (Publication Review)
  • Peer-reviewer of scientific journals, Invited (Frontiers in Oncology, Pre-publication) (Publication Review)
  • Peer-reviewer for Scientific Journals, Invited (Oncogene, Pre-publication) (Publication Review)

Student Recruitment or Widening Participation

  • Open Day (Student Recruitment or Widening Participation)

Conference Roles

  • Departmental cancer seminar series (Liverpool, 2021 - present)
  • Tumour explant models for immuno-oncology, by Invitation (Invited by french pharmaceutical company Pierre Fabre- seminar was via zoom due to the pandemic., 2020)
  • CRUK Beatson Institute, by Invitation (CRUK Beatson Institute, 2019)
  • Wellcome Trust Conference, UK, by Invitation (Wellcome Trust Conference, 2018)
  • Cancer Center of Toulouse, France, by Invitation (Toulouse Cancer Center, 2018)
  • Pancreatic cancer symposium, Cambridge, UK, by Invitation ( Pancreatic cancer symposium., 2017)
  • North West Cancer Research Industrial workshop, by Invitation (North West Cancer Research , 2017)
  • University of Edinburgh, MRC Center., by Invitation ( Invited by Prof Jeffrey Pollard, Director of MRC centre., 2016)
  • BARTS Cancer Institute., by Invitation (BARTS Cancer Institute, 2016)
  • North West Cancer Research Symposium., by Invitation (North West Cancer Research , 2016)
  • Elli Lilly, Indianapolis, U.S.A., by Invitation (Elli Lilly, 2011)
  • Invited Speaker. Nature Medicine Symposium, La Jolla, California., by Invitation (Nature Medicine, 2011)

Editorships

  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (Editorial Board Member, 2015 - present)

Examination Roles

  • PhD (2023)
  • European Research Council , Elected Expert remote referee for ERC research grants (2017)
  • Medical Research Council, UK, Expert reviewer for MRC research grants (2017)
  • French research council - INSERM, Expert reviewer for INSERM research grants (2018)
  • Breast Cancer Now, UK , Expert reviewer for Breast Cancer Now research grants (2017)
  • Israel Science Foundation, Expert reviewer for Israel Science Foundationg research grants (2019)
  • University of Liverpool, PhD thesis ()
  • University of Liverpool, PhD Thesis ()
  • University of Liverpool, PhD thesis (2021)
  • PhD thesis (2019)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Mentor of junior academics in the SUSTAIN programme of the University of Birmingham

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Chair of new ISMIB sustainability committee (School / Institute)
  • Member of the HLS sustainability working group (Faculty)
  • Member of the School of Life Science Education Committee (School / Institute)
  • Member of the ISMIB PGT committee (School / Institute)
  • Member of the ISMIB R&I committee (School / Institute)

Professional Body Memberships

  • AcademiaNet – Expert organisation of outstanding female academics. (Elected Member, 2015 - present)
  • European Association for Cancer Research (EACR). (Member, 2017 - present)
  • British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB). (Member, 2017 - present)
  • American Association of Cancer Research (Associate Member, 2007 - present)

Publication Reviews

  • Peer-reviewer for scientific journals, Invited (Nature Communications, Pre-publication)
  • Peer-reviewer for scientific journals, Invited (Frontiers in Immunology, Pre-publication)
  • Peer-reviewer of scientific journals, Invited (Frontiers in Oncology, Pre-publication)
  • Peer-reviewer for Scientific Journals, Invited (Oncogene, Pre-publication)

Student Recruitment or Widening Participation