Professor Claire Brasted-Pike
College positions:
Fellow Commoner, Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Biological, Part IA), Deputy Praelector
Subject:
Biological Sciences
Dr Claire Brasted-Pike is a Fellow-Commoner and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Biological) at Magdalene.
Claire read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, progressing to the MSc in Biochemistry and then a PhD in the field of epigenetics and transcriptional control at the Gurdon Institute. She completed a postdoctoral Research Associateship at the Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, focussing on the genetics and genomics of breast cancer.
- Epigenetic regulation of gene expression
- Genes that are found to be recurrently targeted by structural change to chromosomes
- Signalling factors that maintain integrity of the mammary epithelium, and the effects of their dysregulation
- Breast cancer genetics – toward finding ‘drivers’ of tumorigenesis in genetically dissimilar cases
- Molecular mechanisms of chemotherapeutic drug resistance
- The most effective activities, pedagogies and assessment types for student learning, across diverse student bodies and settings
- Diversity and inclusion in education: addressing the talent ‘leaky pipeline’
- PhD, University of Cambridge
- MSci Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
- MA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge
Professional Affiliations
- National Teaching Fellow
- Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
- Executive Committee Member of Heads of University Centres of Biomedical Sciences
- Member of the Education Policy Advisory Group of the Royal Society of Biology
- Member of the Curriculum Committee of the Royal Society of Biology
- Member of the Diversity and Inclusion Network of the Royal Society of Biology
