Name:
Dr Rebecca Lee
Post-nominal Letters:
PhD
Job Title:
Senior Lecturer in Medical Oncology
Organisation / Company:
University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Biography:
Dr Rebecca Lee is a senior lecturer in medical oncology at The University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and a Wellcome early career fellow. Her PhD examined precision medicine approaches to melanoma treatment supervised by Professor Richard Marais and Professor Paul Lorigan. This was followed by work examining how local and systemic immune tolerance is induced through interaction between melanoma and cells within the liver microenvironment as a post-doc clinical fellow in the laboratories of Prof Erik Sahai and Prof Mala Maini. She also has developed a number of translational clinical trials aiming to improve outcomes for patients with melanoma. She has now opened her own laboratory at The University of Manchester focusing on tumour-host interactions with a particular interest in liver metastase