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Dr Niamh Buckley

School of Pharmacy
Niamh Buckley School of Pharmacy

Dr Niamh Buckley

School of Pharmacy

Dr Buckley’s research focuses on understanding the pathways driving breast and ovarian cancer with a particular focus on triple negative breast cancer and the breast and ovarian tumour suppressor gene, BRCA1.

Dr Buckley’s stratified medicine approach integrates in vitro, in vivo, bioinformatics and molecular pathology methodologies to analyse tumours, identifying key pathways underpinning poor outcome.

Detailed knowledge of this biology is then used to identify appropriate targeted treatment options, personalising therapy in an area of unmet clinical need.

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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Cancer research
  • Personalised medicine
  • Biomarkers
  • Novel treatment options

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Current Research Opportunities

  • Developing novel therapeutic strategies to better treat Triple Negative Breast Cancer
  • Investigating the clinical and molecular significance of the microbiome in breast cancer

Public outreach & key achievements

  • Recipient of prestigious Breast Cancer Now Scientific Fellowship 2013 (£550,852)
  • EACR Young Scientist,
  • Roche Gold Medal for Research,
  • School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences Post Doctoral Researcher of the Year
  • BRCALinkNI Annual Patient Information Day

Press Coverage and Impact:

  • 14 Sci-tech innovators solving the world’s big problems
  • Queen’s scientist to help find new options to treat aggressive breast cancers
  • QUB scientists in breast cancer diagnosis breakthrough
  • Belfast researchers discover potential new way to better tailor treatments for early breast tumours
  • Queen's research raising hopes of 'tailored' breast cancer treatment
  • International Women's Day: Nine women who #makeithappen in breast cancer research
  • Investigating new ways to identify and treat patients with a poor prognosis
  • Investigating PIN1 as a biomarker for BRCA1-mutated breast cancer

Research students

PhD Title Identification of Novel Biomarkers and Therapeutic Strategies in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Name Ahmed Elkashif
Country Northern Ireland
Year of Study  2017-2020
   
PhD Title Nano-engineered Systems for the Targeted Delivery of Oncology Drugs for Breast Cancer
Name Kim Glass
Country Northern Ireland
Year of Study  2018-2022
   
PhD Title IGNITE: IGnifying Tumours: Nanotechnology for Immune Oncology TargEts
Name Elaine Gilmore
Country Northern Ireland
Year of Study  2019-2022
   
PhD Title Investigating the role of CDH1 in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Name Linbo Gao
Country China
Year of Study  2019-2022
   

 


Alumni: Where are they now

  

PhD Title Characterisation of the Prolyl Isomerase, Pin1, in BRCA1-deficient Breast Cancer
Name Dr Catherine Knowlson
Year of Study 2014-2017
Country  Scotland
Current Position Research Scientist in CV6 Therapeutics
   
PhD Title Investigation of the role of the Two Pore Potassium Channels (KCNK) in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer
Name  Dr Elaine Craig
Year of Study 2015-2017
Country Northern Ireland
Current Position Consultant Gynae-Oncology Surgeon, Belfast City Hospital
   
PhD Title POTENT- Personalized Ovarian Cancer Therapy using Gene Editing and Nano-Technology
Name  Kathryn Egerton
Year of Study 2018-2019
Country Northern Ireland
Current Position Research Associate, INI Proof of Concept Grant, School of Pharmacy, QUB l

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