About me
- Principal Researcher and Team Leader with a Docent in Bioinformatics
working at the Department of Oncology-Pathology in BioClinicum
I completed my BSc in Biotechnology in 2004 at Dublin City University,
Ireland, where I also successfully defended my dissertation 4 years later in
the subject area of vascular biology. Since then I have held post-doctoral
positions in Malmö – at the Centre for Molcular Pathology, a part of Lund
University - Manchester – at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research
- and at Karolinkska Institutuet , Onk-Pat, all in the subject area of breast
cancer.
Research
- Our work involves the integration of multiple high-throughput data types
including next generation sequncing, SNP and gene expression arrays with
clinico-pathological information in order to perform high quality
translational research with a breast and pan-cancer focus. Specifically we
are interested in:
* Determining the added prognostic or treatment predictive value of
molecular biomarkers (including gene expression signatures) beyond that
provided by routine clinical diagnostics
* Understanding cell-cycle biology from a pan-cancer ‘omics data
perspective
Teaching
- I mainly teach in the subject area of Bioinformatics, but also run seminars
on various aspects of cancer including its hallmarks and the utility of
cancer gene expression signatures in a clinical setting. Of note I:
* Have partcipated in over 12 weeks full-time pedagogic training courses
* Have completed over 500 hours teaching undergradates (BSc),
post-graduates (MSc and PhD) and medical professionals (MD) in both
hands-on demonstration and lecturing roles
* Executive board member FoTO – The Doctoral Programme in Tumour Biology and
Oncology [Jan. 2020 – present]
* Am responsible (Kursansvarig) for the Molecular Medicine-Oncology course
(15 credits), a part of the Biomedicine program [June 2020 – present]
* Director of Education (GUA) at Onk-Pat [Jan. 2021 – present]
* Chair for the Scientific Committee of the Cancer Core Europe translational
research Summer School [Jan. 2023 – present]