Professor Tim Elliott, of the Cancer Sciences Division, who along with clinical scientists Dr Anton Page, instigated the residency, said he was delighted that Pauline was to join the laboratory.

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The 40-year-old, who had worked for the university in a variety of positions for 14 years, was employed as a research business manager in the School of Cancer and Enabling Sciences at the time of the fraud.

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Clare Stevinson, a Cancer Research UK researcher at the department of exercise and health sciences at the University of Bristol, said the findings of the endometrial cancer research were "encouraging".

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