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Dr Vicki Smith

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Vicki Smith

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Dr Vicki Smith

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science, University of Birmingham

 

Research Interests

Vicki’s research interests are centred on thyroid biology and the molecular pathogenesis of thyroid disease. She is particularly interested in the signalling pathways that mediate normal thyroid growth and function and are dysregulated in thyroid cancer and goitre.

Vicki is currently exploring new insights into the regulation of physiological cellular signalling and motility in multiple cell types, including epithelial cells, fibroblasts, endothelial cells and immune cells. These findings will inform multiple conditions in which cell motility is dysregulated, such as cancer progression and chronic inflammation.

Vicki also has a longstanding interest in the cellular trafficking of the iodide transporter NIS and how this relates to radioiodine resistance in thyroid cancer. She investigates new therapeutic strategies both to improve critical radioiodine treatment in thyroid tumours and to induce radioiodine uptake in other tumour types such as breast cancer.

These investigations include in vitro culture systems, animal models and human tissue to combine fundamental and translational research.


MIBTP Project Details

Current Projects (2025-26)

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