Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Digital molecular pathology approaches to characterize the immune contexture of cancers using high quality biosamples
• Investigating the role of the oral microbiome in cancer risk and malignant transformation
• Identifying and validating molecular biomarkers for stratification of patients with cancers

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Public outreach & key achievements

• Scientific Director of the Northern Ireland Biobank since 2010, established to underpin excellence in translational research across the FHLS at Queen’s.
• Co-investigator on the QUB Precision Medicine Centre of Excellence Award with colleagues Professor Manuel Salto-Tellez, Professor David Gonzalez de Castro and Dr Darragh McArt
• Member of the NCRI Head and Neck Clinical Study Group
• Member of two NCRI CM-Path workstreams
• Co-PI on CRUK Accelerator award in Digital Molecular Pathology with Professor Manuel Salto-Tellez

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title	Molecular Stratification strategies in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
Country	United Kingdom
Current Position	Post-doctoral Fellow in Molecular digital pathology programme funded by CRUK

 

 

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• Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences

• School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

• Wellcome-Wolfson Institute For Experimental Medicine

• The Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research