After graduating from the University of Manchester with a BSc (Hons), I completed a DPhil in oncology at the University of Oxford in a project focussing on enhancing and then detecting the delivery of therapeutic compounds to brain metastases in a mouse model. This work involved a range of preclinical imaging techniques and measures of therapeutic outcome. I have recently joined the UKRMP Safety Hub as a postdoctoral researcher in a group led by Dr Tammy Kalber and Prof Mark Lythgoe at University College London to develop novel translatable MRI techniques to provide a means of screening the progression of liver fibrosis. This will subsequently be used to assess the effects of stem cell therapy.
Publications:
Connell JJ, Chatain G, Cornelissen B, Vallis KA, Hamilton A, Seymour L, Anthony DC, Sibson NR. (2013) Selective permeabilization of the blood-brain barrier at sites of metastasis. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 105(21):1634-43.
Serres S, Martin CJ, Sarmiento Soto M, Bristow C, O’Brien ER, Connell JJ, Khrapitchev AA, Sibson NR. (2014) Structural and functional effects of metastases in rat brain determined by multimodal MRI. International Journal of Cancer. 134(4):885-96.
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