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Upon completing his PhD in 2002, Dr Lee Parry took up a Postdoctoral Fellow position at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) in the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Lee’s work there, was a change of focus from the cancer genetics of his PhD as he worked in the research groups of A/Prof Henrik Dahl and David Thorburn on Complex I deficiency in mitochondria.
Lee returned to cancer genetics at Cardiff University after completing his post in Australia, working on a Cancer Research UK funded project in the laboratory of Prof Alan Clarke. In July 2013, Lee took up a fellowship at the European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute where his research focused on understanding and therapeutically exploiting the mechanisms that links the environment (diet & gut bacteria) to inflammation and colorectal cancer.
In 2020, Lee became a lecturer at Cardiff University's School of Biosciences, where he leads the Prevention and Early Detection of Cancer group and have been included in Cancer Research UK's 2021 promotional video on cancer research during COVID-19.
Dr Lee Parry BSc (Hons), PhD, FHEA, Cardiff UniversityWith the pandemic changing the nature of meetings and events, the opportunities that arise from in person meeting, socialising, and networking changed. Wales has the ambition and capability to help us all realise the potential of these interactions in state-of-the-art facilities with opportunities for delegates to immerse themselves in the culture, entertainment, and our wonderful natural environment. I am privileged to be an ambassador for my country and contribute to the shared effort to attract globally important meetings and events to Wales. Fellow ambassadors are leaders in their respective scientific and academic fields and we are ready to take our place as the convenors and hosts of these important, in-person reunions to help drive progress and innovation."
