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Dr Jaine Blayney

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Dr Jayne Blayney

Dr Jaine Blayney

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Dr Blayney’s main research focus is the development and application of novel bioinformatics methods that enable the discovery of predictive and prognostic patient subgroups and accelerate product development in inflammatory disease and cancer. 

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  • askmhls@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 5807

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Technology/platform-agnostic prior knowledge transfer
  • Compositional statistics
  • Pre-clinical model selection/chacterisation
  • Prognostic/predictive subtyping
  • Consensus/meta-clustering
  • Landmark analysis
  • Progression routes from pre-malignancy to cancer
  • Mixed signal deconvolution/convolution

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Current Research Opportunities

  • Development of in silico framework to support pre-clinical model selection
  • Machine Learning Automated Characterisation and Selection of Pre-Clinical Models for Experimental Design

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Research students

PhD Title Subtyping Ulcerative Colitis patients at risk of developing colorectal cancer
Country Northern Ireland, UK
   
PhD Title  Temporal analysis of biomarkers 
Country Northern Ireland, UK
   
PhD Title In silico integrated analysis methodologies
Country   Northern Ireland, UK 
   
PhD Title Consensus clustering of prostate cancer
Country   Ireland

 

 


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