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Dr Jacqueline James

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Dr Jacqueline James

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Dr Jackie James’ research is centred on characterizing the immune contexture of cancers, using innovative approaches in molecular digital pathology. 

Her work is carried out within a large successful molecular tissue hybridization and digital pathology operation in the QUB Precision Medicine Centre.  Dr James uses high quality, pathologically assured tissues to identify and validate novel biomarkers for cancer predication, prognosis and response to therapy.

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  • askmhls@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 5781

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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  • The Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research

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