Enfield, Katey
PhD
Academic Rank(s): Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC; Scientist in the Department of Integrative Oncology at the BC Cancer
Affiliation(s): BC Cancer
Research and Scholarly Interests: Non-coding RNA Deregulation in Lung Cancer, Pseudogene-derived lncRNAs in Cancer Regulation, Cis-Acting lncRNAs in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, Tumor-Immune Interactions in Lung Cancer, Long Non-coding RNA Transcriptomes in Cancer
Dr. Katey Enfield is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a Scientist in the Department of Integrative Oncology at the BC Cancer Research Institute (BCCRI). Dr. Enfield received her PhD from UBC under the supervision of Dr. Wan Lam, where she employed a multiomics approach to discover and characterize oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes. While she was a trainee at BCCRI, Dr. Enfield was a recipient of the CIHR Banting and Best Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award and the Lloyd Skarsgard Research Excellence Prize. Dr. Enfield undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK, in Professor Charles Swanton’s lab, where she studied the reciprocal relationships between cancer-intrinsic genomic alterations and the immune response in the TRACERx study. Dr. Enfield developed expertise in highly multiplexed approaches for the spatial profiling of the tumour microenvironment, and received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship from Horizon Europe. She is looking forward to continuing her research in the PRO-Lung research network, with a focus on spatial cancer biology, B cell responses in lung cancer, and immunotherapy response.
Academic Background
- Fellowship, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. 2024
- PhD, (Interdisciplinary Oncology Program) University of British Columbia. 2017
- BSc, (Microbiology) University of Victoria, 2009