Dr Lauren Pecorino
Professor of Cancer Biology, University of Greenwich
Speaker's biography
Dr Lauren Pecorino is a Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Greenwich where she has taught a course in cancer biology for over 20 years. She is the author of the book, ‘The Molecular Biology of Cancer: Mechanisms, Targets, and Therapeutics’, published by Oxford University Press (now in its 5th edition). Lauren received a PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London. Lauren is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, and a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the Biochemical Society. As a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and member of the Medical Genetics Section, she strongly supports the Royal Society of Medicine.