Laura Monaghan (PhD)

Research Fellow

  • MRC Human Genetics Unit 
  • Institute of Genetics and Cancer 
  • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine 

Contact details

Address

Street

MRC Human Genetics Unit
Institute of Genetics and Cancer
The University of Edinburgh
Western General Hospital
Crewe Road

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH4 2XU

Biography

Background

Graduating in 2014 with a First class BSc (Hons) from Caledonian University in Glasgow, Laura took up a Research Technician role in the lab of  Professor Paul Shiels Laboratory within the Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre working on an industry collaboration with GSK. In 2017 she moved to the Paul O’Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre in the University of Glasgow to begin PhD studies under the supervision of  Dr Xu Huang  developing novel small molecule inhibitors of fundamental epigenetic regulators and fully characterising their phenotype as a monotherapy or in combination in the treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. Graduating in December 2021, she joined the lab of Professor Javier Caceres at the University of Edinburgh MRC Unit for Human Genetics in 2022 as a Research Fellow, working on RNA processing mechanisms in human disease.

Qualifications

2017- 2021

University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Friends of the Paul O’Gorman Adam Renwick Martin PhD Studentship

PhD Student – Institute of Cancer Sciences

“Investigating inhibitors of KDM4A as potential therapeutic targets in AML”

 

2012 - 2014       

Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

1st Class - BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science

“Comparison of NRDc (N-Arginine Dibasic Convertase) expression in lean and obese Zucker rat testis using a germ cell normalised qPCR Assay.”

 

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