Principal Investigators

Dr. Ute Jungwirth

Ute Jungwirth joined the Newcastle Drug Discovery Unit in February 2024 from the University of Bath (2018-2024), Centre for Therapeutic Innovation where she chaired the Cancer Research at Bath Network. She was previously a Schrödinger Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher at The Institute of Cancer Research, Breast Cancer Now Research Centre, London (2013-2018) where she studied the role of cancer-associated fibroblasts before starting her research lab as Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at Bath. Ute has a background in drug discovery, therapy resistance, and in vivo and advanced in vitro (2D and 3D co-culture) models. University profile.