Teaching
• Theme lead for the Science of Medicine, MBChB program since 2018. Responsible for course comprising 7 Tissue Systems plus a Foundation System with Clinical and Academic leadership delivering 337 Lectures (2020-21) as part of the core of the Year 1 and 2 curriculum plus CBL sessions, examination design, question writing and review for assessment for learning and progression.
• Deliver lectures to the MBChB Medicine and BSc Life Sciences courses on topics including cancer, genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology.
Medical and Life Sciences Education (MBChB, B.Sc, & M.Res.)
As the science lead for the MBChB Foundation Block- "Building life", which aims to teach students the science that underpins medicine, I am involved in the design of the course, planning and teaching of some fundamental aspects of cell and molecular biology and genetics to mostly first year students.
I am also involved in teaching many aspects of cancer to medical and science undergraduates and post-graduates with a primary focus on cancer biology and molecularly targeted therapeutic approaches.
I lecture on the Translational Cancer module for Life Sciences 373, including hereditary cancer syndromes, viral oncology and the molecular oncology of head and neck cancers.
I deliver lectures on radiobiology- in particular of radiosensitisation for Clatterbridge.
Supervised Theses
- Developing novel therapeutic strategies for targeting the p53 pathway in renal cell carcinoma
- Investigation of the molecular basis for p53-mediated metabolic regulation in head and neck cancer
- Investigation of the role of mTORC1 and MAPK/ERK pathways in cellular responses to amino acid deprivation
- Tumour metabolism in squamous cell carcinoma of the head & neck : consequences & potential therapeutic implications of TP53 mutation