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Sarah Storr

Assistant Professor in Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

Dr Storr is an Assistant Professor in Cancer Science, following on from her prestigious Nottingham Research Fellowship funded to investigate the role of DARPP-32 in breast cancer. She previously worked as a post-doctoral fellow investigating the role of calpain and calpastatin in breast cancer in the group awarded Research Team of the Year 2012 by Breast Cancer Now.

Dr Storr has been Principal Investigator on a Team Verrico pilot grant, Nottingham Breast Cancer Research Centre funding and a Bioscientifica Trust Research Award. She has been co-applicant on grants from Pancreatic Cancer UK Research Innovation Fund, Breast Cancer Now, Breast Cancer Research Trust and the NUH Charity. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, awarded a PGCHE from the University of Nottingham, and has completed an MRes in Bioinformatics to expand her transcriptomic research (as part of a Level 7 apprenticeship at the University of Nottingham).

Expertise Summary

  • Member of the BBSRC pool of experts
  • Previous British Association of Cancer Research (BACR) executive committee member and trustee of the association (Membership, Services and Finance sub-committee and Media sub-committee)
  • Previous National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) translational and imaging breast cancer sub group member
  • Steering committee member of the Nottingham Breast Cancer Research Centre
  • Organising committee: BACR Tumour microenvironment (6-8th September 2023, Nottingham, UK)
  • Organising committee: BACR 60th Anniversary meeting (26th-28th June 2022, Nottingham, UK)
  • Organising committee: BACR - Tumour microenvironment (1st -3rd July 2019, Nottingham, UK)
  • Organising committee: BACR - Tumour microenvironment; basic science to novel therapies (15-16th June 2017, Nottingham, UK)
  • Advisory committee: FASEB - The biology of calpains in health and disease (17-22 July 2016, Montana US)

Teaching Summary

Module lead for "Hallmarks of Cancer" ONCG1001 delivered to U6UCANCS BSc Hons Cancer Sciences and U7UCANCY MSci (Hons) Cancer Sciences students Reseponsible for all "Research Skills" tutorials… read more

Recent Publications

  • KÖBEL, MARTIN, KANG, EUN-YOUNG, WEIR, ASHLEY, RAMBAU, PETER F, LEE, CHENG-HAN, NELSON, GREGG S, GHATAGE, PRAFULL, MEAGHER, NICOLA S, RIGGAN, MARJORIE J, ALSOP, JENNIFER, ANGLESIO, MICHAEL S, BECKMANN, MATTHIAS W, BISINOTTO, CHRISTIANI, BOISEN, MICHELLE, BOROS, JESSICA, BRAND, ALISON H, BROOKS-WILSON, ANGELA, CARNEY, MICHAEL E, COULSON, PENNY, COURTNEY-BROOKS, MADELEINE, CUSHING-HAUGEN, KARA L, CYBULSKI, CEZARY, DEEN, SUHA, EL-BAHRAWY, MONA A, ELISHAEV, ESTHER, ERBER, RAMONA, FEREDAY, SIAN, AOCS GROUP, FISCHER, ANNA, GAYTHER, SIMON A, BARQUIN-GARCIA, ARANTZAZU, GENTRY-MAHARAJ, ALEKSANDRA, GILKS, C BLAKE, GRONWALD, HELENA, GRUBE, MARCEL, HARNETT, PAUL R, HARRIS, HOLLY R, HARTKOPF, ANDREAS D, HARTMANN, ARNDT, HEIN, ALEXANDER, HENDLEY, JOY, HERNANDEZ, BRENDA Y, HUANG, YAJUE, JAKUBOWSKA, ANNA, JIMENEZ-LINAN, MERCEDES, JONES, MICHAEL E, KENNEDY, CATHERINE J, KLUZ, TOMASZ, KOZIAK, JENNIFER M, LESNOCK, JAIME, LESTER, JENNY, LUBIŃSKI, JAN, LONGACRE, TERI A, LYCKE, MARIA, MATEOIU, CONSTANTINA, MCCAULEY, BRYAN M, MCGUIRE, VALERIE, NEY, BRITTA, OLAWAIYE, ALEXANDER, ORSULIC, SANDRA, OSORIO, ANA, PAZ-ARES, LUIS, RAMÓN Y CAJAL, TERESA, ROTHSTEIN, JOSEPH H, RUEBNER, MATTHIAS, SCHOEMAKER, MINOUK J, SHAH, MITUL, SHARMA, RAGHWA, SHERMAN, MARK E, SHVETSOV, YURII B, SINGH, NAVEENA, STEED, HELEN, STORR, SARAH J, TALHOUK, ALINE, TRAFICANTE, NADIA, WANG, CHEN, WHITTEMORE, ALICE S, WIDSCHWENDTER, MARTIN, WILKENS, LYNNE R, WINHAM, STACEY J, BENITEZ, JAVIER, BERCHUCK, ANDREW, BOWTELL, DAVID D, CANDIDO DOS REIS, FRANCISCO J, CAMPBELL, IAN, COOK, LINDA S, DEFAZIO, ANNA, DOHERTY, JENNIFER A, FASCHING, PETER A, FORTNER, RENÉE T, GARCÍA, MARÍA J, GOODMAN, MARC T, GOODE, ELLEN L, GRONWALD, JACEK, HUNTSMAN, DAVID G, KARLAN, BETH Y, KELEMEN, LINDA E, KOMMOSS, STEFAN, LE, NHU D, MARTIN, STEWART G, MENON, USHA, MODUGNO, FRANCESMARY, PHAROAH, PAUL DP, SCHILDKRAUT, JOELLEN M, SIEH, WEIVA, STAEBLER, ANNETTE, SUNDFELDT, KARIN, SWERDLOW, ANTHONY J, RAMUS, SUSAN J and BRENTON, JAMES D, 2023. p53 and ovarian carcinoma survival: an Ovarian Tumor Tissue Analysis consortium study The Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research. 9(3), 208-222
  • STORR, SARAH J., HOSKIN, VICTORIA, AIYAPPA-MAUDSLEY, RADHIKA, GHAFFARI, ABDI, VARMA, SONAL, GREEN, ANDREW, RAKHA, EMAD, ELLIS, IAN O., GREER, PETER A. and MARTIN, STEWART G., 2023. A retrospective analysis of ezrin protein and mRNA expression in breast cancer: Ezrin expression is associated with patient survival and survival of patients with receptor-positive disease Cancer Medicine.
  • GREENER, MEGAN R. and STORR, SARAH J., 2023. Conflicting theories on addiction aetiology and the strengths and limitations of substance use disorder disease modelling Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 16,
  • ALANAZI, SAMAR M. AND FEROZ, WASIM AND MISHRA, ROSALIN AND KILROY, MARY KATE AND PATEL, HIMA AND YUAN, LONG AND STORR, SARAH J. AND GARRETT, JOAN T., 2023. HER2 inhibition increases non-muscle myosin IIA to promote tumorigenesis in HER2+ breast cancers PLOS ONE. 18(5,), 1-20
  • Module lead for "Hallmarks of Cancer" ONCG1001 delivered to U6UCANCS BSc Hons Cancer Sciences and U7UCANCY MSci (Hons) Cancer Sciences students
  • Reseponsible for all "Research Skills" tutorials delivered to U6UCANCS BSc Hons Cancer Sciences and U7UCANCY MSci (Hons) Cancer Sciences students
  • Lectures on "Tumour Physiology" module to U7PONLGY MSc Oncology students
  • Lectures to BSc Cancer Sciences students
  • Senior Tutor and Personal tutor for U6UCANCS BSc Hons Cancer Sciences and U7UCANCY MSci (Hons) Cancer Sciences students
  • Supervises BMedSci, MSc, and PhD research projects
  • Welcomes work experience placement students

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