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Dr Alison Dickson is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, School of Medicine. Her research focuses on lipidome analysis in tumor microenvironments using spatial mass spectrometry and imaging technologies. She investigates oxysterol metabolism in cancer and pregnancy, with a particular interest in enzyme mechanisms and drug development for cancer therapy.
Key research areas include cancer drug mechanisms (e.g., NUC compounds), nucleoside transferase catalysis, and oxysterol biosynthesis in disorders like Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. She mentors PhD students Hazem Abdullah and Greice Zickuhr. Her work spans biochemistry, analytical chemistry, and translational oncology.
- Education: Not explicitly detailed in the text but inferred from her research roles.
- Labs: Active in the Harrison Lab, collaborating on interdisciplinary projects.
Publications highlight her expertise in metabolomics, enzyme kinetics, and clinical drug evaluation. She explores anti-cancer agents like NUC-7738 and NUC-3373, focusing on their mechanisms and combination therapies. Recent work combines spatial metabolomics with immunofluorescence to profile tumor heterogeneity.
