Staff Profile
Dr Ute Jungwirth
Senior Lecturer - Cancer Drug Discovery
- Email: ute.jungwirth@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/drugdiscovery
- Address: Translational and Clinical Research Institute
Cancer Research UK Newcastle Drug Discovery Unit
Newcastle University
Paul O'Gorman Building
Medical School
Framlington Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4HH
Background
In February 2024, I joined Newcastle University as Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Cancer Drug Discovery. I am a member of the Cancer Research UK Newcastle Drug Discovery Unit (Cancer Research Horizons) and Translational and Clinical Research Institute within the Faculty of Medical Sciences. My research focuses on cancer drug discovery and the impact of tumour-stroma interactions to develop novel strategies for the prevention and suppression of cancer progression and to overcome drug resistance.
I obtained a PhD from the Medical University Vienna (Austria) studying metal-based anticancer drugs after which I was awarded an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship to join the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London (UK). At the ICR I worked together with Prof. Clare Isacke to develop syngeneic, spontaneously metastasising breast cancer in vivo models and studied the metastases-promoting role of cancer-associated fibroblasts. In 2018, I joined the University of Bath as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Cancer Biology where I was also the Chair of the Cancer Research at Bath network. In 2023, I was promoted to Senior Lecturer (Associated Professor). Since moving to Newcastle University I hold a visiting academic position at the University of Bath where my Bath research group studies the impact of fibroblasts on novel anticancer (immuno-) therapies and therapy-induced fibroblast activation.
Areas of Expertise
- Cancer drug discovery
- Tumour microenvironment
- Cell and molecular biology
- In vitro and in vivo cancer (metastases) models
Links to ORCID , SCOPUS , Google Scholar
External roles and memberships
- British Association of Cancer Research (BACR)
- European Association of Cancer Research (EACR, Ambassador)
- UK Biochemical Society
- Austrian Society of Toxicology
- Fellow of Advanced Higher Education (FHEA)
- Editorial board member of the journal 'Discover Oncology' (Spinger Nature Publishing)
Qualifications
Magistra rerum naturalium (integrated Master’s in Chemistry), University Vienna, Austria.
Master of Science in Toxicology, Medical University Vienna, Austria.
PhD, research program “Malignant Diseases”, Medical University Vienna, Austria.