Dr Stephen Cooke - Immunobiology/Rheumatism/Cancer Biology/Retroviruses

Dr Steve Cooke received his undergraduate degree in Biological Chemistry from The City University, London and his PhD from King’s College, London, where he studied the immunobiology of xenograft rejection. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, London, investigating the role of endogenous retroviruses in rheumatic disease before taking up a CRUK-funded fellowship at University College Medical School, London. His work there involved the design, expression (using phage display technology) and purification of antibody-based fusion proteins targeted to specific epitopes or angiogenic factors expressed by cancer cells. He has authored and peer reviewed numerous papers in the field of cancer biology and currently works as a freelance science editor working on manuscripts for researchers and physicians whose native language is not English.