Dr. Maria Prencipe

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin & co-lead of the Cancer Biology and Therapeutics laboratory, UCD Conway Institute at University College Dublin

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Dr. Maria Prencipe is an assistant professor of Pharmacology in the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin and co-lead of the Cancer Biology and Therapeutics laboratory (www.cbtlab.ie) in UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research. Her research, funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council, focuses on the mechanisms of resistance to hormone therapy in breast and prostate cancer with the goal of identifying novel and more effective treatments and companion diagnostics for the advanced stages of these diseases. She sits on the executive council of the Irish Association for Cancer Research as grants’ officer and is a champion of public and patient involvement in cancer research as a member of the steering committee of the Patient Voice in Cancer Research initiative (www.ucd.ie/patientvoicecancer/).