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2013 British Association for Cancer Research meeting on Tumour Micro-Environment - Basic Science to Novel TherapiesUniversity of Bristol July 3-4th 2013 |
We are delighted to
announce we will host the 2013 British Association for Cancer Research
Meeting on Tumour Microenvironment -
Basic science to novel therapies - from July 3rd-4th 2013,
featuring: |
Doug Hanahan (Lausanne)
Gosse
Adema (Nijmegen)
Bronek
Pytowski (Imclone)
Helge Wiig (Bergen) Jacqueline Shields (Cambridge) Holger Gerhardt (London/Leuven) Francis Balkwill (London) Michael Olson (Glasgow) Gordon Jayson (Manchester) |
Kari
Alitalo (Helsinki)
Elise Kohn (NCI, NIH) Stefan Schulte Merker (Utrecht), Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke (London) Eyad Elkord (Salford) Claire Lewis (Sheffield) Steve Wedge (Newcastle) Chris Schofield (Oxford) Steven Harper (Bristol) |
David BatesProfessor of Microvascular Biology and MedicineScientific Director, MVRL, School of Physiology and Pharmacology. email: Dave.Bates@bris.ac.uk |
Steve HarperHonorary Professor in Physiology and PharmacologyClinical Director, MVRL, Consultant Nephrologist, Academic Renal Unit, Southmead Hospital. Email: S.Harper@bris.ac.uk |
Dr
Andy Salmon MRC Clinician Scientist, Clinical Senior Lecturer/Consultant in Nephrology, (Academic Renal Unit) and Physiology and Pharmacology Andy.Salmon@bristol.ac.uk |
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Dr
Sebastian OlteanResearch Fellow, School of Physiology and Pharmacology Sebastian.Oltean@bris.ac.uk |
Angiogenesis Our angiogenesis
research focuses on:1. The biology of the anti-angigoenic splice variants of VEGF we disovered in 2002 2. Therapeutic angiogenesis and arteriolargenesis, particularly with respect to the formation of physiologically normal vasculature. |
Vascular permeability We are investigating
how microvessels control fluid and solute movement from blood to
tissue, the role of the endothelial surface layer, the junctional
proteins and the endothelial signalling mechanisms,and how this is
altered in angiogenesis and in diseases such as pre-eclampsia, Dengue
fever and cancer. |
Renal microcirculation End stage renal
failure often results from damage to the filtering units of the kidney,
the glomerulus. We are investigating how the structure and function of
the glomerular barrier is controlled by the surrounding cells, the
podocytes, as well as the lining cells, the endothelial cells in health
and disease. |
Ophthalmology Our discovery that VEGF isoforms are altered in eye
disease, and the concept that blocking blood vessel growth has led us
to develop tools that can modify angiogenesis and prevent cells in the
eye from dying. We are developing new drugs to treat Age Related
Macular Degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and other eye conditions. |
Neuronal protection Vascular growth factors also act on the nervous system
both directly by changing blood vessels that supply nerves, and
directly by acting on VEGF receptors on neurons. The discovery that
VEGFs can protect neurons from cell death has lead us to investigate
how this might occur, and its effect on different neuronal types. |
Tumour metastasis Many cancers kill due to spread from their point of
origin (e.g. skin, breast) to other organs (e.g. brain, lung). We have
identified novel moelcular mechanisms by which tumour cells can escape
their environment and find their way to lymph nodes and then to distant
organs. We are trying to develop inhibitors of these as novel cancer
therapies. |
Postdoctoral Research Assistants and Associates
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Postgraduate Students |
Technicians, postgraduate students and Clinical Fellows
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Dr
Yan QiuCancer Research UK Postdoctoral Research Associate, from China Yan.Qiu@bris.ac.uk |
Athina Mavrou.
Prostate Reseacrh Campaign funded PhD Student. From Cyprus. |
![]() Amy Russell. MRC technician and PhD student. From Scotland |
Dr
Maryam Hamdollah- Zadeh
Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Associate, from Iran |
Kai Betteridge
MRC funded PhD
Student |
Megan Stevens. MRC technician and PhD
student |
Dr Richard Hulse.
Diabetes UK funded Postdoctoral Researcher (Working jointly with Dr
Lucy Donaldson). |
Nikita
Ved. Diabetes UK PhD student (Joint with
Professor James
Bainbridge, UCL) |
Dr
Shaney Barratt Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellow
(working jointly with Dr Ann Millar) |
Dr Karen Brakspear.
MRC Funded postdoctoral Researcher |
Xi Ye. British
Heart Foundation PhD Student. (Joint with Dr Amanda Churchill,
Ophthalmology) |
Sarah
Moeschler Cancer Research Technologies Funded Research
Technician (working jointly with JP Girard, Unviersity of Toulouse)
from Switzerland |
Jim Carter.
CRT Funded
postdoctoral researcher. |
Jenny Castle Miller.
BBSRC PhD Student (joint with Dr Domingo Tortonese,
Anatomy) |
Eleanor
Star. BBSRC technican and PhD student (from Wales) |
Maria
Machado. BHF Funded postdoctoral researcher (from
Portugal) |
Sara Desideri. Kidney
Research UK funded PhD student. From Italy |
Hanna
Zielinska. RBVRT funded Technician. |
Mel Gammons.
BHF funded postdoctoral researcher |
Caroline
Phelps. BBSRC funded PhD student (working jointly with
Lucy Donaldson and Bridget Lumb) |
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Dr
Nick Beazley-LongSCaRF Postdoctoral researcher |
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| Wellcome Trust | British Heart Foundation | Medical Research Council | Diabetes UK | The Richard Bright VEGF Research Trust, | Cancer Research UK |
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Prostate Research Campaign | BBSRC |
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| Fight for Sight |
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Royal College of Surgeons |
The Healing
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Bupa Foundation |
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Georgie Cope is now a
postdoc at Harvard University working with Valerie Schumacher and
Jordan Kredberg. |
Dr
Silvia Lanati was awarded her PhD in March 2012 and is now working as a
postdoctoral researcher at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, with Patrick Daugherty in
Chemical Engineering (ex-PhD
student). |
Dr Kenton Arkill is
now working as a postdoctoral research associate in Brimingham. |
![]() Dr Leslie Sage was awarded her PhD in October 2011 and worked for Obama's campaign as a data analyst in Ohio. She is now in Washington DC working with the Inaugural committee |
Kirsty Symonds is working as a laboratory officer at Truro Hospital. |
Robert Muston |
Dr Wei Kang Wu is
now working as a postdoc in the Dept of Ophthalmology in Bristol with
Prof Andrew Dick. (ex-PhD
student). |
Vadim Alexeenko has
returned to Russia. |
Dr Maria Peiris Pages is a
postdoc in Michael Lisanti's Laboratory at the Unviersity of
Manchester, after doing a postdoc at Weill Cornell Medical School, New
York
City. (ex-PhD
student). |
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Dr Emma Rennel is
working as a Senior Scientist for Olink Biosciecne AB in Stockholm |
Dr
Oliver Stone took a postdoc at the University of California, San
Francisco working with Didier Stainer on angiogenesis in zebrafish, and
moved recently to the Max Planck Institute at Bad Neuheim (ex PhD student)
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Dr Joanne Ferguson is studying Medicine in Bristol (ex-PhD
student). |
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Jeanette Woolard is a Seriously Cool Lecturer in
Cardiovascular Pharmacology at the University of Nottingham |
Maxine Emmett is now working as a a postdoc with Rowan
Pritchard-Jones in Liverpool (ex PhD student) |
Dr Cathy Glass went
to University of California at Davis for her Postdoctoral Research,
gaining a Regenerative Medicine fellowship. (ex PhD student) |
Dr Jing Hua is now an Instructor at the Schepens Eye
Institute in Boston after completing a fellowship with Reza Dana and
postdoc work with Professor Lois E.H. Smith at Harvard Medical School,
Children's Hospital. |
Mr Darryl Dunn is completing his
plastic surgery training in Oxford |
Dr Dawid
Nowak completed an MSc in Bioscience Enterprise at Cambridge
University, and then moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories as a
postdoctoral researcher with Lloyd Trotman (ex PhD student) |
Mr Alex Varey was a Clinical Research Fellow/RCS
Surgical Registrar and Hunterian Professor of Surgery for 2007-8. He is
now working as a specialist registrar in plastic surgery in the South
West. |
Dr Anette Magnussen
went to work as a postdoctoral Researcher at University College London
Cancer Institute. |
Arjun Krishnakur is now undertaking a PhD at the Queen's
University,Belfast having completed his MSc with us. |
Ms Liz Waine was
a Urology Registrar/Visiting Clinical Research Fellow.
She completed her MD and is now working as a Specialist Registrar in
Surgical Urology. |
Dr Andy Benest took a
position as a junior team leader with Hellmut Augustin's laboratory in
Heidelberg, Germany, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Leeds
Institute for Molecular Medicine Tumour Angiogenesis Signal Transduction
and Cancer Group (ex PhD student) |
Dr Heather
Bevan took a postdoctoral position at the Academic Renal Unit at
Southmead Hospital working with Dr Simon Satchell, then moved to a
position at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. (ex PhD student) |
Dr Olga
Konopatskaya is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate
with Dr Alastair Poole in Pharmacology in Bristol |
Dr Hongwei
Cheng is working jointly with Jules Hancox in
the CRL and Clive Orchard in the Department of Physiology
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Tris Pocock is now a teaching fellow in the School of
Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester |
Dr Rachel Perrin undertook postdoctoral research at the
University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento,
California, with Prof Sarah Yuan, and is now International Development
Officer for the Meningitis Research Foundation (ex PhD student)
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Dr Becky Foster took a
postdoctoral research associate position in Bristol. She is now a BHF
Intermediate Fellowship running her own group at Southmead Hospital. (ex PhD student)
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Dr
Jacqui Shields is now a Associated Research Group
Leader at the MRC Cancer Unit in Cambridge. (ex PhD student). |
Dr Wenying Wang is
currently working as a research scientist for Novobiotech in Beijing (ex PhD student) |
| Cheryl Whittles is working in the
Department of Biochemistry |
Nicky Hillman (Now Nicky Cook) teaches biology in Leicester |