Personal statement
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology and Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) Programme Director
I am an elected Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society (BPS) and currently serve as Editor-in-Chief of Pharmacology Matters magazine (2017-2022) and Reviewing Editor for Pharmacology Research & Perspectives (PR&P) journal. I am also a member of the BPS Engagement and Awards committees (since 2020).
I am an elected member and current co-Chair of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland (YAS, 2018 cohort) and have previously held the role as Theme Lead for Health (2019-2021). I am also Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow (since 2017).
I serve as the coordinator of Outreach (Biomolecular Sciences) with Dr Zahra Rattray (Pharmacy) and I lead on the Career Progression working group on the SIPBS Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Team SIPBS WIDE (2015-present). I was part of the SAT team leading to the Athena SWAN Bronze award in 2017 and the successful Silver award in 2021.
Teaching
I am the Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) Programme Director (2023-2027) and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) with a Postgraduate Diploma in Academic Practice.
I am a member of the International Union of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) Core Concepts in Pharmacology Research Team. I serve as the external examiner for the Applied Medical Sciences (AMS) degree programme at Swansea University.
I am class coordinator for BM434 and BM941 Clinical Pharmacology and lead on the BM327 Pharmacology laboratories, in addition to delivering across many of the undergraduate and postgraduate courses we offer.
Research interests
My field of expertise is G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)-dependent regulation of cardiovascular function with particular interest in proteinase-activated receptors (PARs) and purinergic P2Y receptor families. My research involves investigating the molecular mechanisms of GPCR, gap junction and damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) in the processes that underpin platelet function, cardiovascular inflammation and anti-cancer therapy-induced cardiotoxicity.
I currently co-lead the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases research group with Dr Susan Currie.
Professional activities
- Using storytelling to recount the untold narratives of breast cancer
- Contributor
- 15/12/2022
- Cardross Primary Outreach
- Host
- 29/9/2022
- Breaking Barriers
- Organiser
- 20/9/2022
- Recounting the Untold Stories of Breast Cancer: Narratives from the Patient, Clinician and Scientist Perspective
- Contributor
- 2/8/2022
- Engineering equity in STEM employment’
- Recipient
- 13/7/2022
- International Women's Week 2022 – Growing Up in Higher Education
- Invited speaker
- 14/3/2022
More professional activities
Projects
- Heart Damage Caused by Cancer and Anti-cancer Drugs (Vacation Scholarship)
- Cunningham, Margaret Rose (Principal Investigator) Bauer, Ralf (Co-investigator) Currie, Susan (Co-investigator)
- 27-Jan-2022 - 19-Jan-2022
- Engineering equity in STEM employment
- Essex, Jane (Principal Investigator) Hendry, Martyn (Principal Investigator) Cunningham, Margaret Rose (Principal Investigator) Ivaturi, Aruna (Principal Investigator) Wang, Yirui (Principal Investigator) McQuilken, Natasha (Principal Investigator)
- The project considered how to enhance the sustainability and resilience of the STEM workforce in the twenty-first century. The opportunity to engage in meaningful work enhances individual health and well-being, as well as enhancing social cohesion and economic prosperity. Specifically, the project considered how technical expertise in industry and academia can be shared with people who are hugely under-represented in the STEM workforce despite their evident capabilities and interest in STEM. The scheme builds upon a highly successful STEM for sustainability summer school that ran last summer and will involve researchers who attended last year, along with others who expressed an interest in joining the project, plus pupils from South Ayrshire schools who have ASN. In addition, the scheme involved regional STEM employers, giving them a chance to develop their understanding of the capacities of diverse young people and their potential to contribute positively to their organisations.
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Recounting the Untold Stories of Breast Cancer: Narratives from the Patient, Clinician and Scientist Perspective
- Rattray, Zahra (Principal Investigator) Rattray, Nicholas (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Margaret Rose (Co-investigator) Chalmers, Susan (Co-investigator) MCFADDEN, Yvonne (Co-investigator)
- £5700 awarded to develop a series of storytelling events
- 14-Jan-2022 - 13-Jan-2023
- SPRINT: A SuPer-Resolution time-resolved ImagiNg and specTroscopy facility for rapid biomolecular analysis
- Li, David (Principal Investigator) Chamberlain, Luke (Co-investigator) Chen, Yu (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Margaret Rose (Co-investigator) Gould, Gwyn (Co-investigator) Hoskisson, Paul (Co-investigator) McConnell, Gail (Co-investigator) Rattray, Zahra (Co-investigator) Van de Linde, Sebastian (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023
- Molecular mechanisms of HMGB1 release from platelets and its implication in vessel wall damage preceding thrombosis (Research Re-Boot - COVID-19 Impact)
- Cunningham, Margaret Rose (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- Sustainable impact by design: a pilot study of effective STEM dissemination for hard-to-reach audiences
- Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Co-investigator) Essex, Jane (Principal Investigator) Hendry, Martyn (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Margaret Rose (Co-investigator) Giovelli, Noemi (Post Grad Student) Ivaturi, Aruna (Co-investigator) Li, Rui (Co-investigator) Maddock, Christie (Co-investigator) Somorin, Tosin (Co-investigator) Yue, Hong (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator)
- STEM Equals + RKES funded project
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023
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