Dr Salvatore Papa is an Associate Professor in the Leeds Institute of Medical Research (LIMR) at University of Leeds and an honorary Fellow at Imperial College London. He is an active research scientist in Cell signalling and Cancer biology. The main focus of his research is to achieve a greater understanding of cancer cell biology, with a view to developing improved cancer diagnostic and therapeutic tools. He also teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Haematology, Gastroenterology, Cancer Biology and Molecular Medicine.