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Dr Francis L Martin PhD Research Scientist

North West, England
Joined November 2016
5000 accesses - wow!!! Detection of ovarian cancer (± neo-adjuvant chemotherapy effects) via ATR-FTIR spectroscopy: comparative analysis of blood and urine biofluids in a large patient cohort. europepmc.org/article/MED/34…
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The second of my Nature Protocols papers hits the 1000 mark!!!😉
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A heron by the water and geese looking into the mists of sunrise; all in an early morning walk.
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Street photo this pm in Manchester.
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The hill in Platt Fields park yesterday; are we not still in lockdown??? The hill this morning with the debris from yesterday - is this the normality we long for and wish to return to????
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Today, my first paper to reach >1000 citations on Google Scholar.
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On 22nd April 2019 I lost my little sister to metastatic breast cancer; a month+week after her funeral on 2nd June 2019, my younger brother took his life. On 2nd June 2020, I left from academia after 30 y. The grievances were losing me my family, the most important thing to me.
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A bumble bee on my front patio.
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A snail on a leaf - something simple.
Nothing special, but I like this picture of a flower.
This spider was on my front door today.
It was a pleasure to introduce Baroness Susan Greenfield who delivered this year's SDNF annual lecture at the Education Centre at Royal Preston; it was a wonderful and insightful talk to a packed lecture theatre.
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Welcome to Weiyi Pang to my lab from Guilin in China; Weiyi will be here at UCLan for next 6 months doing some interesting experiments.
Congratulations to Matthew Dent on passing his PhD viva subject to minor amendments last week and then getting his revisions in and passed in record time. Well done - another fantastic PhD student gone on their way.
As evening sets over the Ribble river in Preston.
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An evening view along the bank of the Ribble river in Preston.
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As the sun begins to set on the bridge over the Ribble river in Preston.
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A view of the bridge over the Ribble river in Preston bathed in evening sunshine.
Bridge over the River Ribble (Preston) in the afternoon sun.