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)