Penelope Ottewell
University of Sheffield, UK
Biography
Ottewell is a lecturer in the Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield UK. She was awarded a PhD from the Department of Gastroenterology at The University of Liverpool in 2005. Ottewell first arrived in Sheffield in 2005 when she took up a position as a post-doctoral scientist working on breast cancer. During her time here Dr Ottewell has carried out international collaborative work spending time at INSERM (University of Lyon), France and at TUFTS University in Boston, USA. Her multi-award winning research focuses on advanced breast cancer with particular emphasis on looking at how and why breast cancer cells spread from the primary site to the skeleton. Ottewell has been awarded a total of 10 prizes for her research including the prestigious Breast Cancer Campaign Research Team of the year award in 2008 and the International Bone and Mineral Society Gregory Mundy Research Fellowship in 2011.