Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- DNA damage repair
- Transcriptional regulation
- Mechanisms of sensitivity/resistance to DNA damage based therapeutics
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 |