Caroline Dive is an International Women’s Day winner

10 Mar 2015

The Deputy Director of the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute has won a Manchester International Women's Day award

Professor Dive won the Manchester City Council International Women’s Day Award in the Breaking Through in Business, Legal or Science and Technology category. She was one of six finalists representing Manchester’s strongest and most inspirational women who received awards at the International Women’s Day ceremony on Friday, 6 March 2015.

Held at the Town Hall, the ceremony was part of a range of events organised by Manchester Council to highlight women's achievements and the struggle for gender equality in the light of International Women’s Day 2015.

Professor Dive is the Deputy Director of the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, where she leads the Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology group.

Over the last 10 years, she has become internationally renowned for the development of circulating tumour cells, which enables the investigation of a patient’s disease in a minimally invasive manner. She has pioneered the bench-to-bedside approach of scientists like herself working with clinicians to translate research into patient benefit. One of her other passions is "to get more girls and women into science".

Manchester alumnus Kirsty Harrison, who graduated from Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science in 2012, was one of the three finalists in the same group as Caroline. Kirsty was also shortlisted for the Young Women Breaking Through category. Kirsty nomination was for her work encouraging students to pursue careers in STEMM, and for being a role model in a male-dominated profession.

Jess Lishak, from the Students Union, was shortlisted for Breaking Through in Campaigning category for her Reclaim the Night work.