Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• DNA damage repair
• Transcriptional regulation
• Mechanisms of sensitivity/resistance to DNA damage based therapeutics

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Public outreach & key achievements

• Cancer Discovery (journal) - editorial "BRCA1-MEDIATED mRNA SPLICING MAINTAINS GENOME STABILITY"
• The Belfast Telegraph - feature story "Queen's University Belfast breakthrough in bid to combat a killer cancer gene"
• The Mirror - feature story "Researchers in Northern Ireland make huge breakthrough in fight against breast and ovarian cancer"

Research students

PhD Title	The molecular and genetic characterisation of contralateral breast cancer
Country	United Kingdom

 

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title	Functional analysis of BRCA1
Country	United Kingdom
Current Position	McClay Professor of Experimental Medicine, QUB and Vice President of biomarker discovery at Almac Diagnostics
PhD Title	Role played by BRCA1 in mRNA splicing
Country	Estonia
Current Position	Research Fellow in Genetics at Livingston Lab, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

 

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• Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences

• School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

• The Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research

• Institute for Health Sciences