Mark Birch-Machin

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Newcastle University
Claremont Road
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom

Scientific summary

Professor Birch-Machin's team want to know more about how UVA causes damage to DNA under various conditions of UVA exposure. By understanding the role of UVA in skin cancer, the team hope to improve skin protection using suncreams and antioxidants …

Recent publications


Increasing melanoma cell death using inhibitors of protein disulfide isomerases to abrogate survival responses to endoplasmic reticulum stress

Cancer Res.2008;68 :5363-5369

Targeting homeostatic mechanisms of endoplasmic reticulum stress to increase susceptibility of cancer cells to fenretinide-induced apoptosis: the role of stress proteins ERdj5 and ERp57

Br J Cancer.2007;96 :1062-1071