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Dr Katherine S Bridge
Kay Kendall Fellow

Biography

Katherine earned her PhD at the University of Nottingham, studying the molecular mechanisms by which hyperactivation of the hypoxic response via Hypoxia Inducible Factor (HIF) in lung cancer can drive cancer progression. Her postdoctoral studies at the Cancer Research UK City of London Centre, where she worked at Barts Cancer Institute, expanded this mechanistic insight of HIF deregulation into renal cell carcinoma and breast cancer.

Katherine was awarded a Centre for Future Health fellowship (Wellcome Trust ISSF) in 2019 to develop her independent research programme at University of York, where she integrated her track record in HIF biology in solid cancers into models of haematopoietic stem cells and haematological malignancies under the mentorship of Professor Ian Hitchcock and Professor David Kent.

In 2021, she was awarded the prestigious Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund Intermediate Fellowship to launch her independent research group. The Bridge Lab is part of the newly launched Centre for Blood Research.

As an early career researcher with a young family, Katherine is an advocate for the retention of women and parents in academia and contributes to UKRI’s Early Career Researcher forum and the Women in Research network.

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Dr Katherine S Bridge
Kay Kendall Fellow
B/Q/107A Department of Biology
University of York
York
YO10 5DD

Tel: +44 (0)1904 326541