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Professor Richard Kennedy

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Richard Kennedy

Professor Richard Kennedy

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

The Stratified Medicine Group focuses on the following areas:

  • Characterisation of a molecular group in solid cancers that represents an innate immune response to DNA damage through the STING pathway.
  • Development of a gene expression based biomarker panel that can identify pathways related to the hallmarks of cancer and guide patient therapy.

Contact info

  • askmhls@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 2777

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Characterisation of a molecular group in solid cancers that represents an innate immune response to DNA damage through the STING pathway
  • Development of a gene expression based biomarker panel that can identify pathways related to the hallmarks of cancer and guide patient therapy

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Professor Kennedy is the Global Vice President of Almac Diagnostics, a spin-out company from Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà that currently employs over 120 people.
  • Along with Nuala McCabe he is responsible for the discovery and development of biomarkers for clinical trials and run a joint research programme between QUB and Almac.

Research students

PhD Title Evaluation of mixed models in the analysis of longitudinal biomarker data in cancer studies
Country United Kingdom
   

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Consensus subtyping of Prostrate Cancer
Country Italy
   
PhD Title  A bioinformatics approach to identifying ulcerative colitis patients at risk of developing colorectal cancer 
Country Superluminous supernovae 
   

 

 


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