Professor Bailey said: “My team is developing new ways to analyse living cells, without having to fix them, which can alter their properties. This is an extremely delicate task, but an important one to understand more about how they survive and function in the body. This has implications for wide-ranging areas of healthcare, particularly in cancer treatment, where my group are investigating how radiotherapy impacts cells.
“I will be bringing a national facility which my team have developed to King’s – driving research into cellular biology; specifically looking at metabolites, lipids and proteins in single cells and sub-cellular organelles. I will also continue my work to develop non-invasive sampling approaches, which aims to reduce the impact biopsies can have on patients – and help develop new ways of making images of tissues.
“I have worked in physics, electronics and chemistry departments and have applied my tools to disciplines as diverse as semiconductors, biosciences, forensics and geoscience. I am truly excited to be a part of King’s interdisciplinary science which is nurturing and connecting researchers with diverse backgrounds like mine. I’m very grateful to have been given the opportunity to start a new lab here and can’t wait to get going!”