Dr Roshini Mariam Mathews

Roshini undertakes teaching and development of learning resources on both undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses. Roshini teaches a range of topics including immunology, research methods, pharmaceutics, cancer biology and cellular & molecular biology. Roshini also supervises final year undergraduates, MSc Cancer Biology and MRes research projects. She is also a module lead for the Fundamentals of Biosciences module. This is a core module undertaken by Bioscience students in the first year of the undergraduate degree course. Roshini is a personal tutor for first year Bioscience students and also acts as an academic advisor for MPharm students.

 Roshini commenced her PhD in cellular and molecular biology where she investigated the role of curcumin as a therapeutic agent for rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. Following the successful completion of her PhD, Roshini was employed by our School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences as a Teaching Fellow in 2018 and undertook various teaching activities and responsibilities. Roshini returned to research as a postdoctoral research associate where she was working on a 3D blood-brain barrier model for Alzheimer’s disease. Roshini subsequently worked as an Associate Lecturer within the School and has been employed as a Lecturer in Biosciences since October 2022.