Research output per year
Research output per year
I am a fully tenured Principal Investigator, Associate Dean of Business Engagement, co-Director of Manchester Centre for Cellular Metabolism, I am Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Division of Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester. I act as one of the key university conduits for the CRUK Manchester Institute, Medicines Discovery Catapult and I am the Industry Lead for the Manchester BRC and Manchester academic lead for Singapore. I am also a PI in the Manchester Cancer Research Centre and hold adjunct professorships in Athens and Singapore.
After reading for my doctorate at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now CRUK) in London (1997), I undertook post-doctoral research at Imperial College London, Southampton and University College, London with associated research spells in Michigan and Frankfurt. I have helped lead a transformational change in an applied research focus and activity in Manchester, engendering a culture of multiple stakeholders including the NHS, academics, industry, innovative funding agencies, the public and patients. One key output during my time in Manchester is an enhancement of the biomedical industrial and basic research partnerships portfolio which has helped generate successful MRC and SBRI/ NIHR funding programmes. Moreover, applied-industrial research ipact and income has moved from an FEC deficit to one which is pragmatic and cost effective for the faculty.
Our research interests focus on biomarker and drug discovery, validation, with associated companion biomarker application in cell stress and survival mechanisms, involving chemoresistance, DNA damage, epigenetic modification and transcriptional and phenotype regulation, in cancer biology, cardioprotection and apoptosis regulation. We use translationally relevant models: skeletal cells undergoing stress, cardiac myocytes undergoing ischaemia/reperfusion injury, and cancers; i.e. solid (prostate, breast, endometrial, pancreatic and ovarian) and blood borne (leukaemia and lymphoma). The lab currently hosts 1 post-doc, 1 EO, and 8 PhD students. I also co-supervise 2 PhD students). I regularly lecture to undergraduate and postgraduate science and medical students on cancer cell biology, drug discovery, proteomics, metabolomics, systems biology, biochemistry, genetics and cellular stress responses and was one of the original establishment team of the BM4 graduate entry in Medicine degree programme at Southampton before relocating to Manchester.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Bachelor of Science, Molecular Cell Biology, University of York
1990 → 1993
Award Date: 1 Jul 1993
Head Start Leadership Programme, Masters level, The University of Manchester
2013 → 2014
Professional Certificate in Academic Performance, University of Southampton
2005 → 2006
Doctor of Philosophy, Biochemistry - Imperial Cancer Research Fund (CRUK)
1993 → 1997
Co-founder, PRECignature Biotechnology
2018 → …
Co-founder, Pentagon Biotechnology
2018 → …
NED and SAB, DeepMed IO Limited
2017 → …
Advisor, Inspiral Biomedical Limited
2016 → …
Honorary Professor, Department of Histology & Embryology, University of Athens
Sept 2015 → …
Adjunct Professor, AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH (A*STAR)
Aug 2015 → …
Academic Lead, Medicines Discovery Catapult Ltd
Jul 2015 → …
NED and SAB, Aptamer Group Ltd
2011 → …
Co-founder, Karus Therapeutics Ltd
Jul 2005 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
Barran, P. (PI), Flitsch, S. (CoI), Mills, E. C. (CoI), Nicolaou, A. (CoI), Pitt, A. (CoI), Townsend, P. (CoI), Trivedi, D. (CoI) & Whetton, A. (CoI)
12/10/20 → 11/04/22
Project: Research
Townsend, P. (Creator), PRoteomics IDEntifications Database, 2021
https://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org/cgi/GetDataset?ID=PXD028651
Dataset
Zeidan, B. (Creator), Manousopoulou, A. (Creator), Garay-Baquero, D. (Creator), White, C. (Creator), Larkin, S. (Creator), Potter, K. (Creator), Roumeliotis, T. (Creator), Papachristou, E. (Creator), Copson, E. (Creator), Cutress, R. (Creator), Beers, S. (Creator), Eccles, D. (Creator), Townsend, P. A. (Creator) & Garbis, S. (Creator), University of Manchester, 22 Mar 2018
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4040306
Dataset