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Come right inside our lab, and into our clinical and other research settings - and learn about our current projects. Discover how they are right now uncovering the next life-changing breakthroughs in treatments and care.

  • Investigating new therapeutic strategies for patients with family history breast cancer

    Aisling Hegarty has been an integral member of Professor Young’s research team since 2014.

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  • Mining multi-omic data to reveal hidden mechanisms of inherited breast cancer

    Dr Mihaela Ola is a key member of our hereditary breast cancer research programme.

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  • Exploiting CDK12 as a therapeutic target for HER2 positive breast cancer

    Alessandra Allotta joined the laboratory following the completion of a Master’s degree in Medical Biotechnology at the University of Naples Federico II, where her award-winning research focused on therapy resistance in breast cancer.

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  • Investigating DNA repair mechanisms as a clinical vulnerability in TNBC breast cancer

    Jason McGrath is a postdoctoral cancer researcher in the Breast Cancer group, and his work focuses on understanding why some breast cancers become difficult to treat, particularly when they spread to the brain.

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  • Understanding RNA methylation in advanced breast cancer

    Adrian Lee is a post-graduate student whose work focuses on understanding how breast cancer cells adapt when they metastasise to the brain, to improve treatment strategies.

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  • Is DDR1 a new actionable target for patients with advanced breast cancer?

    Louise is a PhD student in the Breast Cancer group whose research focuses on DNA methylation changes which occur on brain metastasis.

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