Dr Lauren Pecorino
Lauren Pecorino PhD
Senior Lecturer in Cancer Biology
Office: Grenville 210A
Email: l.pecorino@gre.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 8331 8210
Fax: +44 (0)20 8331 9805
Areas of Expertise
Dr Pecorino obtained her Ph.D in Cell and Developmental Biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. She then moved to London to carry out a post-doctoral tenure at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research where she studied the fascinating phenomenon of limb regeneration. Here she used a technique called biolistics using a “gene gun” to shoot gold bullets coated with DNA to introduce genes into the regenerating limbs of live newts. Since 1996, Lauren has been a member of academic staff at the University of Greenwich, where she developed her interest in teaching Cancer Biology. She is the author of the textbook entitled: The Molecular Biology of Cancer: Mechanisms, Targets, and Therapeutics, now in its second edition, published by Oxford University Press. Recently she has become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Course Participation
| BIOL0034 | Cancer Biology |
| BIOL1013 | Cell & Microbial Biology |
| BIOC1011 | Fundamentals of Biochemistry |
| OMED0075 | Medical Biochemistry |
| PHAR0004 | Medicinal Chemistry and Therapeutics |
| BIOC0581 | Metabolism and Disease |
| GENE0579 | Molecular and General Genetics |
| NUTR1001 | Specialised Topics in Nutrition |
Multimedia
Introduction to the Biology of Cancer Podcast (6mins 2 secs)
Further Information
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