Dr Teifion Luckett (he/him)

Dr Teifion Luckett graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences from Cardiff University in 2016. He went on to complete an MRes at the University of Liverpool in 2018, where he investigated how microenvironmental stimuli enable chronic lymphocytic leukaemia cells to resist drug treatment.

Following this, Teifion undertook a PhD at the University of Liverpool in 2019, under the supervision of Ainhoa Mielgo, focusing on how the tumour microenvironment in pancreatic cancer promotes metastasis. His research identified Gas6 and mesothelin as key tumour-secreted factors that reprogramme myeloid cells, enabling cancer cell survival at metastatic sites.

Teifion is currently an SMF Grand Challenge-funded postdoctoral associate in the group of Sarah Richardson in Exeter, which he joined in April 2024. His work combines computational biology with advanced image analysis to investigate human pancreatic development after birth and to understand how pancreatic maturity influences type 1 diabetes. Teifion in an enthusiastic bioinformatician, specialising in AI assisted image analysis, transcriptomics and spatial proteomics.