Nicola Murray Centre for Ovarian Cancer Research
Ovarian cancer is the fourth most common cause of female cancer death in the UK. Until recently it has been treated as a single disease entity. There is now considerable evidence to demonstrate that ovarian cancers differ in their tissues of origin, their genetic abnormalities, their responsiveness to chemotherapy and the ultimate outcome for patients.
It is our aim to investigate the biology of this disease at the interface between the laboratory and the clinic in order to generate findings that can be directly translated into patient benefit. We do this by characterising the molecular changes that occur in different ovarian cancers and determining how this affects their responsiveness to chemotherapy or novel biological agents. In some instances this has led to the description of novel molecular subtypes.
People |
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| Charlie Gourley |
Principal Investigator, Professor of Medical Oncology and Director of the Nicola Murray Centre for Ovarian Cancer Research |
| Robb Hollis | PhD Student |
| Mike Churchman | Lab Manager |
| Simon Herrington | Professor of Molecular Cancer Pathology |
| David Melton | Chair in Somatic Cell Genetics |
| Barbara Stanley | MD |
| Liang Song | Post Doc |
| Miriam Kathleen Gomez | PhD Student |
PA: Laura.Commins@igmm.ed.ac.uk
High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Cancer genetics, Gene signatures, Gene Expression, BRCA1 and BRCA2, Homologous recombination, Mutation screening, Translational research, Clinical trials
Translation Research, Clinical trial management, Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) tissue, Nucleic acid extraction, Gene Expression, Next Generation Sequencing, Conventional Sequencing, Bioinformatics
