Professor Claire Brasted-Pike

College positions: Fellow Commoner, Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Biological, Part IA), Deputy Praelector

University position: Teaching Professor of Human Anatomy, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

Subject: Biological Sciences 

Group membership: Governing Body; Academic Committee; Tutors and Pastoral Team; Music Committee; Chapel Affairs Committee

Dr Claire Brasted-Pike is a Fellow-Commoner and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Biological) at Magdalene.

Claire read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, progressing to the MSc in Biochemistry and then a PhD in the field of epigenetics and transcriptional control at the Gurdon Institute. She completed a postdoctoral Research Associateship at the Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, focusing on the genetics and genomics of breast cancer.

Research Interests

  • Epigenetic regulation of gene expression
  • Genes that are found to be recurrently targeted by structural changes to chromosomes
  • Signalling factors that maintain the integrity of the mammary epithelium, and the effects of their dysregulation
  • Breast cancer genetics – toward finding ‘drivers’ of tumorigenesis in genetically dissimilar cases
  • Molecular mechanisms of chemotherapeutic drug resistance
  • The most effective activities, pedagogies and assessment types for student learning, across diverse student bodies and settings
  • Diversity and inclusion in education: addressing the talent ‘leaky pipeline’

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Cambridge
  • MSci Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
  • MA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge

Professional Affiliations

  • National Teaching Fellow
  • Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
  • Executive Committee Member of Heads of University Centres of Biomedical Sciences
  • Member of the Education Policy Advisory Group of the Royal Society of Biology
  • Member of the Curriculum Committee of the Royal Society of Biology
  • Member of the Diversity and Inclusion Network of the Royal Society of Biology