Dr Geraldine Lynch is a Pleural Clinical Research fellow working in the Academic Respiratory Unit and a member of the Pleural Team at Southmead Hospital. She has a degree in Medicine from St George’s, University of London and an undergraduate Masters in Physics from the University of Oxford. She is a Specialist Trainee in Respiratory Medicine and is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Bristol.

With her PhD funded in part by the charity Avon Mesothelioma Foundation (AMF), her research interests focus on Mesothelioma, a fatal cancer of the lining of the lung primarily caused by exposure to asbestos. She is interested in using blood-based and histological markers to improve diagnosis rates as well as improving prediction of survival and disease progression.