Dr Doreen Lau
Lecturer in Inflammation, Ageing and Cancer Biology

Summary

Dr Doreen Lau is a Lecturer at Brunel University of London and a visiting researcher at University of Cambridge. She graduated with a PhD from the University of Cambridge as a Cancer Research UK and Cambridge Trust scholar, specialising in cancer immunology and the clinical translation of molecular imaging techniques and biomarkers for cancer immunotherapy in patients and preclinical models. She received postgraduate training in cancer imaging and pharmacology at Imperial College London, and previously worked as a scientist at the University of Oxford and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. Dr Lau also served as a part-time Lecturer in Oxford, where she taught imaging, disease mechanisms and therapy in cancer, and was the Module Co-Lead for cancer immunology.

Dr Lau has received multiple international awards for her contributions to cancer immunology and imaging research. These include the 1st Place William G. Negendank Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine for cancer imaging (2018), the Women in Molecular Imaging Network Scholar Award from the World Molecular Imaging Society (2019), a Top 3 PhD Award from the European Society for Molecular Imaging (2021), and the Merit Travel Grant and Best Poster Award in Immuno-oncology Biomarker Development from the European Society for Medical Oncology (2023). In recognition of her achievements as an early-career scientist, she was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship in Sciences from Wolfson College, University of Oxford in 2022.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College, 2016 - 2020

Master of Research (Distinction), Imperial College London, 2014 - 2015

Associate Fellowship in Teaching (AFHEA), Advanced HE, 2022

Responsibility

Principal Investigator at the Centre for Inflammation Research and Translational Medicine

Research and teaching duties at the university