Professor Alison Gartland
BSc (Hons), PhD
Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health
Professor of Bone and Cancer Biology
+44 114 215 9046
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Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health
DU34
The Medical School
Beech Hill Road
91直播
S10 2RX
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For enquiries, please contact 鈥 SMPH-West-Operational@sheffield.ac.uk
I studied Biomedical Technology at 91直播 Hallam University and - following a period in industry - studied for my PhD at The University of Liverpool in Prof Jim Gallagher麓s lab on the "Expression and functional significance of the P2X7 receptor in skeletal tissue".
I then moved to Montpellier, France where I was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at IGMM, CNRS in Bob Hipskind麓s lab. Following this, I was a Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School USA, in the late Prof Sandy Marks Jnr麓s lab.
I joined the University of 91直播 in 2006 as a Lecturer in Bone Biology.
- Research interests
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My research interests are in P2 receptor signalling in musculoskeletal disease and cancer. The role of P2 purinoreceptor ligands (ATP and other nucleotides) as extracellular messengers is well established and there is now conclusive evidence, from my previous work and that of others, that extracellular nucleotides have a highly influential role in the bone microenvironment. In addition to their roles in bone, nucleotides and P2 receptor signalling have been shown to play a role in cancer.
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Current Collaborators
- Professor Mark Wilkinson
- Dr Dawn Teare
- Dr Gaynor Miller
- Dr Shelly Lawson
Postgraduate Students
- Mr Luke Tattersall
- Teaching interests
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I am Chair of the Medical School Graduate Research Committee, I lecture on the undergraduate Medical Course as well as being the academic lead for the research Attachment SSC, I also run the Doctoral Development Programme module "Effective Presentation and Seminar Participation" MED605.
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I am the Founder and President of the UK Purine Club, and member of the Bone Research Society, European Calcified Tissue Society, the International Bone and Mineral Society and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.