About
Ute Jungwirth is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Newcastle University in the Cancer Research UK Newcastle Drug Discovery Unit and Translational and Clinical Research Institute, and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bath’s Department of Life Sciences. Her research focuses on the tumor microenvironment’s role in cancer progression and therapy resistance, with an emphasis on stromal targeting strategies for metastatic cancer prevention. She holds a PhD in Malignant Diseases from the Medical University of Vienna, alongside degrees in Toxicology and Chemistry from Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna.
Her lab at Bath includes PhD students Ioanna Kontou, Tressan Grant, and Ella Rimmer, as well as collaborative projects with Dr. Gurevich. Former students include Emily Lay (PhD 2023) and Carmen Grimaldos Rodriguez (PhD 2023). She leads projects such as the GW4-MRC DTP collaboration and research on fibroblast roles in squamous cell carcinoma. Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to health and innovation.
Key projects include collagen remodelling studies in breast cancer metastasis and a multi-user confocal microscope initiative. Despite no explicitly listed awards, her research has garnered significant citations, particularly in immunotherapy resistance mechanisms and biosensing technologies.
