Heather M. Wallace - Deputy Chair

Heather gained a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of Glasgow and was awarded her PhD by the University of Aberdeen. She undertook postdoctoral research in Biochemistry at the University of Aberdeen and was awarded a University Research Fellowship. Her first Faculty position was a Wellcome Trust lectureship in Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology and then a “New Blood” lectureship in Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology. In 2004, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (in Toxicology) and was awarded Fellowship of the British Toxicological Society in 2005. Heather became a member of the UK Register of Toxicologists and a European Registered Toxicologist in 2006. Her research interests are in the mechanisms of cell death associated with anticancer drugs and potential chemopreventative agents, in particular, designing and testing novel antitumour agents using the polyamine metabolic pathway as a specific target. Her group is also interested in the use of biomarkers for diagnosis and monitoring efficacy of anticancer drug therapy.