Chelmsford
0845 196 3099
christina.greenwood@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• PhD(Cantab)
• BSc (Dual Hons)

• Practitioner in Clinical Reflexology (since 2007) (Institute of Complementary Medicine)

Courses

• Practical Proteomics Course - Karolinska Institute (Visiting lecturer)
• Doctoral Supervisions

Outline of Career

Chrissy Greenwood completed a BSc in Biochemicstry and Biology (Dual Honors) from Keele University in 2000. She obtained her PhD from Cambridge University in the field of infective immunology where she was a Harrison Watson Junior Fellow.

Following this, she Joined Anglia Ruskin University in 2006 as a Research Fellow investigating the molecular mechanisms of breast cancer metastasis and response to therapeutics.

She spent some time working on a collaborative project as a Senior Post Doctorial Fellow at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (2009) and she is now a Senior Research Fellow in the Molecular and Cellular Biology laboratory based in the Postgraduate Medical Institute.

Chrissy actively collaborates with researchers across the UK, Australia and Sweden.

Research Interest

• Cancer biology
• Translational clinical research ("bench to beside").
• Proteomics.
• Nanoparticles as novel therapeutics for targeting breast cancer.
• Stress and disease- modulation of stress during cancer diagnosis for improved patient benefit.

Selected Publications

Greenwood C, Gergana Metodieva, Khalid Al-Janabi, Berthold Lausen, Louise Alldridge, Lin Leng, Richard Bucala, Nelson Fernandez, and Metodi V. Metodiev. Stat1 and CD74 overexpression is co-dependent and linked to increased invasion and lymph node metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer J Proteomics. 75 (10) pp 3031-40.

Zakharchenko O, Greenwood C, Lewandowska A, Hellman U, Alldridge L, Souchelnytskyi S., 2011. Meta-data analysis as a strategy to evaluate individual and common features of proteomic changes in breast cancer. Cancer Genomics Proteomics. Jan-Feb 2011 ;8(1):1-14.

Olena Zakharchenko,, Christina Greenwood, Louise Alldridge and Serhiy Souchelnytskyi., 2011. Optimized Protocol for Protein Extraction from the Breast Tissue that is Compatible with Two-Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis. Breast Cancer: Basic and Clinical Research: March 2011, 5 37-42

Zabel M*, Greenwood C*, Thackray AM, Pulford B, Rens W, Bujdoso R. Perturbation of T-cell development by insertional mutation of a PrP transgene. Immunology. 2009 Jun;127(2):226-36
*Joint First Co-Author

Metodieva M, Greenwood C, Alldridge L, Sauven P, Metodiev M.A peptide-centric approach to breast cancer biomarker discovery utilizing label-free multiple reaction monitoring mass spectrometry. Proteomics-Clinical Applications. Vol. 3, No. 1. (2009), pp. 78-82.

Alldridge L, Metodieva G, Greenwood C, Al-Janabi K, Thwaites L, Sauven P, Metodiev M. Proteome profiling of breast tumours by gel electrophoresis and nanoscale electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. J Proteome Res. 2008 Apr;7(4):1458-69

McVicar AJ, Greenwood CR, Fewell F, D'Arcy V, Chandrasekharan S, Alldridge LC. Evaluation of anxiety, salivary cortisol and melatonin secretion following reflexology treatment: a pilot study in healthy individuals. Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2007 Aug;13(3):137-45. Epub 2007 Jan 4.