EXPERIENCE: My freelance medical copywriting business started in 2005. Before this, I worked as a medical writer at various healthcare advertising agencies across London. I also have experience working as a medical journalist and as a copy editor and proofreader at STM journals including Nature, Clinical Science and the Biochemical Journal.
QUALIFICATIONS: PhD Biochemistry, Imperial College London (1996-1999); BSc Applied Biology (First class), University of Greenwich (1991-1995).
MEMBERSHIPS: I am a member of the European Medical Writers Association, the Association of British Science Writers, and a Foundation Trust member at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
PUBLICATIONS: During my brief scientific career I published 11 peer-reviewed journal articles, mainly in the area of free radicals, antioxidants and acute lung injury:
- Mumby S, Upton RL, Chen Y, Stanford SJ, Quinlan GJ, Nicholson AG, Gutteridge JM, Lamb NJ, Evans TW. Lung heme oxygenase-1 is elevated in acute respiratory distress syndrome. Crit Care Med 2004; 32(5): 1130-5. [PubMed]
- Quinlan GJ, Mumby S, Lamb NJ, Moran LK, Evans TW, Gutteridge JM. Acute respiratory distress syndrome secondary to cardiopulmonary bypass: do compromised plasma iron-binding anti-oxidant protection and thiol levels influence outcome? Crit Care Med 2000; 28(7): 2271-6. [PubMed]
- Lamb NJ, Quinlan GJ, Mumby S, Evans TW, Gutteridge JM. Haem oxygenase shows
pro-oxidant activity in microsomal and cellular systems: implications for the release of
low-molecular-mass iron. Biochem J. 1999; 344: 153-8. [Full paper]
- Lamb NJ, Gutteridge JM, Baker C, Evans TW, Quinlan GJ. Oxidative damage to proteins of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: evidence for neutrophil-mediated hydroxylation, nitration, and chlorination. Crit Care Med 1999; 27(9): 1738-44. [PubMed]
- Lamb NJ, Quinlan GJ, Westerman ST, Gutteridge JM, Evans TW. Nitration of proteins
in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
receiving inhaled nitric oxide. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1999; 160(3): 1031-4. [Full paper]
- Jourdan KB, Evans TW, Lamb NJ, Goldstraw P, Mitchell JA. Autocrine function of
inducible nitric oxide synthase and cyclooxygenase-2 in proliferation of human and rat
pulmonary artery smooth-muscle cells: species variation. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol
1999; 21(1): 105-10. [Full paper]
- Anning PB, Chen Y, Lamb NJ, Mumby S, Quinlan GJ, Evans TW, Gutteridge JM. Iron
overload upregulates haem oxygenase 1 in the lung more rapidly than in other tissues.
FEBS Lett 1999; 447(1): 111-4. [Full paper]
- Gutteridge JM, Mumby S, Lamb NJ. Iron binding and autoreduction by citrate: are these involved in signalling by iron regulatory protein-1? Free Radic Res. 1998; 28(3): 319-22. [PubMed]
- Salmon M, Koto H, Lynch OT, Haddad EB, Lamb NJ, Quinlan GJ, Barnes PJ, Chung
KF. Proliferation of airway epithelium after ozone exposure: effect of apocynin and
dexamethasone. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1998; 157(3 Pt 1): 970-7. [Full paper]
- Quinlan GJ, Lamb NJ, Tilley R, Evans TW, Gutteridge JM. Plasma hypoxanthine levels in ARDS: implications for oxidative stress, morbidity, and mortality. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997; 155(2): 479-84. [PubMed]
- Quinlan GJ, Lamb NJ, Evans TW, Gutteridge JM. Plasma fatty acid changes and increased lipid peroxidation in patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome. Crit Care Med 1996; 24(2): 241-6. [PubMed]
