Rate My Professor Therese Featherston

Featherston's research centers on redox biology, with a particular emphasis on oxidative stress mechanisms in melanoma progression, drug resistance, and antioxidant defenses. She co-authored 'Melanoma redox biology and the emergence of drug resistance' in Advances in Cancer Research (2024) and 'Comparing automated cell imaging with conventional methods of measuring cell proliferation and viability' in Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods (2024), the latter validating automated imaging techniques against traditional assays for cancer cell studies. Collaborating with researchers including Professor Mark B. Hampton and Dr. Martina Paumann-Page, her contributions have advanced methodologies in redox-sensitive cancer research. In 2022, as a PhD candidate, she mentored Christchurch High School student Carol Tuu, whose science fair project on oxidative stress, guided by Featherston and Hampton, won the Prime Minister's Science Prize for Emerging Scientists. Following her PhD, Featherston joined the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK, as a postdoctoral researcher, extending her work on redox processes in disease. Her academic trajectory at the University of Otago underscores her dedication to biomedical research in pathology and cancer biology.