Dr David Lewis

David Lewis is a Group Leader at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, where he leads a multi-disciplinary team of chemists, physicists, biologists and mathematicians developing better ways to image cancer.  David’s research focusses on metabolic imaging of nutrient use in cancer, he is passionate about combining imaging and spatial biology technologies to provide new insights into cancer and cachexia development.  In the Cancer Cachexia Cancer Grand Challenge, David will be using state-of the-art imaging technologies such as Total-Body PET to visualise metabolic rewiring during cachexia development.  These imaging methods offer new insights into the causes of cachexia and provide ways to identify and characterise cachexia early offering the best chance of cure.