About
Lucy is a senior research associate in the department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine at the University of Liverpool. Lucy gained a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of West Virginia, an MSc in Forensic and Analytical Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde, an MSc in Chemistry from the University of Manchester, and currently holds a fellowship with Pancreatic Cancer UK. Lucy's work is focused on early detection of pancreatic cancer, particularly on the development and translation of diagnostic biomarkers. Lucy is interested in the relationship between pancreatic cancer and diabetes, including the mechanisms underpinning the development of diabetes in individuals with pancreatic cancer.
Lucy's previous projects have used aptamer technology to explore the proteome in pancreatic cancer and diabetes (PI: Cancer Research UK Primer award), and established a cohort of individuals with new-onset diabetes to investigate earlier detection of pancreatic cancer (Co-I: CRUK UK-Early Detection Initiative for Pancreatic Cancer, programme award). Her other funded projects have involved the creation of risk stratification tools for pancreatic cancer using health record data combined with molecular profiling, the use of multi-functional targeted nanoparticles for MR imaging enhancement of pre-malignant pancreatic lesions, and investigating the transcriptomic landscape of pancreatic cancer in the presence, or absence of glucose dysregulation.