Professor Miriam Dwek, College Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Westminster, delivered her inaugural Professorial Lecture The Peculiar Stickiness of Cancer to a packed Fyvie Hall audience at the University of Westminster on Wednesday 7 December 2022.
Professorship is the highest professional title awarded to academics at the University of Westminster. The achievement is celebrated with a lecture delivered by the newly appointed Professor to their family, friends, collaborators, colleagues, and the general public.
Professor Dwek’s lecture took her audience on a deeply personal journey through her upbringing, life and career researching modifications of sugar molecules on the outsides of specific cell types, and how these can be relevant to the understanding and treatment of breast cancer.
Having worked in the field of complex sugar biology for the last three decades, Professor Dwek examined how the work she has been involved in has enhanced our understanding of breast cancer. She explored how some of the new laboratory and computer-based research methods she has helped to establish have allowed meaningful findings to be made, such as the better understanding of complex sugar changes in cancer.
Deeply committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, Professor Dwek also considered how far academia has travelled in reducing discrimination in academic research and how much more room there is to go.
Read more about Professor Dwek’s lecture on the University’s Difference blog.
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