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Dr Fiona Furlong

School of Pharmacy
Fiona Furlong

Dr Fiona Furlong

School of Pharmacy

Dr Furlong’s research team are dedicated to understanding the pharmacology and mechanisms of action of drug responses in breast and ovarian cancer cells.

Her research focuses on the application of molecular and cell biology approaches to detect the pathways of good and poor responses to cancer therapies.

The objective of this research is the development of clinically actionable drug combinations and predictive biomarkers to improve therapy choices for patients.

Contact info

  • askmhls@qub.ac.uk

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Cancer pharmacology
  • Breast and Ovarian cancer
  • Mechanism of drug action
  • Chemoresistance
  • Stratification biomarker development
  • Cell and molecular biology

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Current Research Opportunities

  • Elucidating novel anti-cancer drug responses in advanced ovarian cancer

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Research students

PhD Title Overexpression and regulation of HDAC6 in the pathogenesis of Breast Cancer
Name Asaad Leen
Country Jordan
Year of Study  1st
   
PhD Title  Dissecting the mode of action of DREAM inhibition in breast cancer
Name Alhussein Ali S Khawaji
Country Saudi Arabia
Year of Study  1st
   
PhD Title Dissecting the Mode of Action of HDAC6 Inhibition in Cancer
Name Yangyang Wang
Country China
Year of Study 3rd
   
PhD Title Investigation of Chemically Modified MicroRNA in Chemoresistant Breast Cancer
Name Fengyu Zhang
Country China
Year of Study 3rd

 

 

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title The contribution of the microRNA miR-433 to the pathology of ovarian cancer
Name Dr Karolina Weiner-Gorzel
Year of Study 2010 - 2014
Country  Ireland
Current Position 3rd year Graduate entry medicine Student at University College Cork, Ireland.
   
PhD Title The evaluation of the effects of the mitotic arrest deficiency protein 2 (MAD2) and the miR-433 microRNA on chemoresistance and cancer prognosis.
Name  Dr Tara Byrne
Year of Study 2013 - 2017
Country Northern Ireland
Current Position Team Leader, Randox
   

 

 


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