Affiliation: University of East London, London, U.K.

Starting with in vitro drug metabolism at Pfizer-Sandwich, UK, Corcoran achieved her Glaxo-funded PhD with Professor Jeremy Nicholson at Imperial College London, followed by GD Searle and Pharmacia-salaried postdocs, before joining Bruker Biospin in California as National Flow NMR manager. At King’s College, London, she held the Maplethorpe Fellowship in Pharmacy, investigating adverse drug reactions for pain medicines. Since joining University of East London, Professor Corcoran has supervised a dozen graduate students in analytical sciences, such as metabolomics. Her Medicines Research Group focuses on health inequalities aligned with UN sustainable development goals. Her research spans the neurosciences of lung & gut health, and most recently, addictive behaviours, collaborating with Drs. Casalotti and Ayoub on Drosophila. Throughout her industrial career, her key motivation has remained reducing and refining animals in research.