Chioni, Athina-Myrto - Kingston University

个人简介

2016 - present Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at Kingston University London 2016 - present Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at Kingston University London 2016 - present Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at Kingston University London 2015 - present Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2015 - present Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2014 - present Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at Kingston University London 2006 - 2014 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, Barts Cancer Institute, Department of Tumour Biology 2003 - 2006 PhD Imperial College London 2001 - 2002 MSc Molecular Medicine, Imperial College London 1998 - 2001 BSc (Hons) Biology, Imperial College London

研究领域

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Myrto's principle research interests focus on fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signalling in cancer. The FGF receptor (FGFR) signalling pathway is implicated in a wide range of pathologies, most notably cancer, yet its efficient targeting is proving challenging to the pharmaceutical industry, partly because FGFR signalling is fundamental to so many normal biological processes. Myrto's previous research demonstrated that FGFR in breast cancer can get cleaved and translocate into the nucleus of the cells acting as a potential transcription factor that can alter metastatic cell behaviour. Previous studies have also demonstrated the presence of full length nuclear FGFR but never the cleaved form of the receptor. Targeting this novel aspect of FGFR signalling might represent a novel therapeutic approach in blocking cancer invasion.