Josephine Bunch is a fellow at the National Physical Laboratory. She is Chair of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry at Imperial College London and the Co-Director of the National Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry Imaging.
Josephine Bunch | |
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| Alma mater | Sheffield Hallam University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) University of Sheffield |
| Thesis | Detection and imaging of pharmaceutical compounds in skin by MALDI-MS (2005) |
Education
editBunch completed a PhD sponsored by Pfizer at Sheffield Hallam University in 2005.[1] Her thesis, "Detection and imaging of pharmaceutical compounds in skin by MALDI-MS", used mass spectrometry.[2]
Research
editBunch was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield, where she was awarded an Enterprise Fellowship to commercialise imaging using mass spectrometry.[1] She joined the University of Birmingham, leading a large multi-disciplinary group using MALDI Mass spectrometry.[3][4] She remains an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Birmingham.[5] She also holds a Chair in Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry at Imperial College London.[6]
She joined the National Physical Laboratory in 2013, where she became responsible for research in MALDI metrology.[4][7] In 2017 Bunch was funded by Cancer Research UK's Grand Challenge to map tumours at a molecular and cellular level.[8] She came up with the idea when listening to a BBC Radio 4 program about the Cancer Research UK Grand Challenges.[9] The investment was worth £16 million, and uses mass spectrometry imaging techniques to study breast, bowel and pancreatic tumours in "unprecedented detail.[10][11][12][13][14] She spoke about the project at the Hay Festival and presented their project at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition.[15][16][17]
She is part of a COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action on mass spectrometry imaging.[18][3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Josephine Bunch : People : National Physical Laboratory". www.npl.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ Josephine., Bunch (2005). "Detection and imaging of pharmaceutical compounds in skin by MALDI-MS". shura.shu.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ a b "COST | Mass Spectrometry Imaging: New Tools for Healthcare Research". www.cost.eu. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ a b "Dr Josephine Bunch has been appointed to lead research in MALDI metrology and fundamentals at NICE-MSI - The University of Nottingham". www.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ "Dr Josephine Bunch, Chemistry - University of Birmingham". www.birmingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ "A-Z People". Imperial College London. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ SelectScience (2017-07-21), Mass Spec Imaging Enables Greater Understanding of Tumors Than Ever Before, retrieved 2018-05-20
- ^ "Building a 'Google Earth' of cancer : National Physical Laboratory". www.npl.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ Barker, Charlotte (2017). "A Google Earth View of Cancer" (PDF). The Analytical Scientist. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ "Funded team Bunch". Cancer Research UK. 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ "Grand Challenge: The Research : Building a 'Google Earth' of cancer : National Physical Laboratory". www.npl.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ "Cartographers of Cancer". The Analytical Scientist. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ "'Google Earth' for tumours could change cancer treatment forever". Metro. 2017-03-09. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ "'Google Earth' For Tumours Could Change Cancer Diagnostics And Drug Testing Forever". HuffPost UK. 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ "Mapping cancer's secret chemistry". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ Hay Levels (2017-10-17), CHEMISTRY - Mass Spectrometry - Josephine Bunch, retrieved 2018-05-20
- ^ hayfestival. "CHEMISTRY - Mass Spectrometry - Josephine Bunch". TES Resources. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ "COST | Who's Who". www.cost.eu. Retrieved 2018-05-20.