Key details
Dr Emy Lucassen
Student Success Associate, Biomed Online
Dr Emy Lucassen graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and subsequently completed a PhD in Cancer Research (HER2 in breast cancer) at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Berne. She also has an MA in Medical Law and Ethics from King’s College London, a PGCert in Higher Education from the University of Greenwich, and a PGCert in Intellectual Property Law from Queen Mary University of London.
After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Virology and Environmental Biology in Oxford, she was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry at Thames Polytechnic in 1991 and was working there when it became the University of Greenwich. She then moved into industry, joining AstraZeneca, where she enjoyed a varied career including work in oncology, genomics, intellectual property, and an extensive secondment to help set up The Brightside Trust, a charity established to inspire schoolchildren from low-income backgrounds to engage with science.
She returned to the University of Greenwich, this time as Student Success Associate for Biomed Online, where she leads two Master’s programmes, tutors Healthcare Law and Ethics, and supervises project students.
Responsibilities within the university
- Programme Leader (MSc Healthcare Management, MSc Healthcare Quality Management)
- Deputy Programme Leader (MSc Biomedical Science, MSc Haematology, MSc Microbiology)
- Tutor and module author (Healthcare Law and Ethics, Genomics)
Course coordination, current
- Analysis of Nucleic Acids
- Advanced human genetics
- Change Management in Healthcare Settings
- Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Analysis in Healthcare Settings
- Clinical Data Interpretation
- Diabetes and the Clinical Laboratory
- Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
- Genomics
- Governance and Risk Management
- Healthcare Law and Ethics
- Lung Disease
- Medical Laboratory Statistics
- Point of Care Testing
- Quality Systems Management
- Renal Disease
- Robotics and Automation
Course participation
- Antibiotics
- Management of Healthcare Associated Infection
- Medical Mycology
- Parasitology
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Managing Learning and Development in Healthcare
- Applied Haemostasis and Thrombosis
- Blood Film Morphology
- Blood Group Serology
- Blood Transfusion
- Diagnostic Haemostasis and Thrombosis
- Haematological Malignancies
- Haemoglobinopathies
- Haemolytic Anaemias
- Immunocytochemistry in Diagnostic Cellular Pathology
Research / Scholarly interests
Emy's research interests are wide-ranging. She has published in peer-reviewed journals on cancer research, the impact of pregnancy on long-term weight gain, changes in hormone levels during strenuous sport, prenatal genetic testing, the disclosure of genetic information within families, and on the use of online learning materials.