Cancer Bioinformatics Group

Mengyuan Li
PHD STUDENT
owner of this project
Mengyuan Li is CSC-funded PhD student who started in October 2020. Her project focuses on integrative analyses of image and genomic profiling data to investigate metastatic development in lymph nodes.

Anita Grigoriadis
READER IN CANCER BIOINFORMATICS
Anita Grigoriadis is a Reader in the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences at King’s College London (KCL), the School Lead (International) and Training Lead for the CRUK KHP Centre, and holds a guest lectureship at Birkbeck College, University of London. Anita is the lead of “CAncer microBiome ImmuNology DAtascience” (CABINDA), a newly formed initiative between the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dental Institute and Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences.

Jelmar Quist
POSTDOCTORAL CANCER BIOINFORMATICIAN
Jelmar seeks to understand how ectopic expression of HORMAD1 influences the tumour immune microenvironment and DNA damage response sin TNBC, with the aim of optimising patient stratification.

Tom Hardiman
PHD STUDENT*
Tom is an MRC-funded PhD student who started in October 2017. His project focuses on understanding the evolution of the premetastatic lymph node niche.

Radhika Kataria
PHD STUDENT
Radhika is a second year iCASE MRC-DTP PhD student at King’s in collaboration with her industry partner Cambridge Cancer Genomics (CCG). Her project focuses on investigating the presence of the microbiota at the tumour site and their downstream effects in genomic instability and immune infiltration.

Ellie Alberts
PHD STUDENT
Ellie is an MRC DTP student that started with the group in December 2019. Her project combines image analysis and transcriptomics to immunophenotype the premetastatic niche of draining lymph nodes in patients with invasive breast cancer.

Greg Verghese
DATA SCIENTIST
Greg joined the bioinformatics group after completing a MSc in data science and machine learning at King’s College London. He aims to apply machine learning and computer vision techniques to digital pathology images to find early indication of transitions indicative of potential cancerous spread to lymph nodes.

Hannan Lau
PHD STUDENT
Hannah Lau is a PhD student under the National University of Singapore-King's College London (NUS-KCL) Joint Degree Program. The focus of her PhD project is to investigate the intratumour transcriptomic heterogeneity in breast cancer and its influence on the stroma and tumour microenvironment.

Mario Parreno
POSTDOCTORAL CANCER BIOINFORMATICIAN
Mario joined the cancer bioinformatics group at King’s College London in 2021. His current research interests include cancer imaging, multi-omics, computational intelligence and machine learning.

Victoire Boulat
PHD STUDENT
Victoire Boulat is a first year Cancer Research UK City of London Centre PhD student. Her project aims to understand the prognostic value and functional role of germinal centers in the lymph nodes of immunotherapy-treated breast cancers.

Siyuan Chen
PHD STUDENT
Siyuan Chen is a CSC-funded PhD student. Her project involves image-based subtyping and molecular correlation analysis of triple negative breast cancers, using deep-learning approaches.

Isobelle Wall
PHD STUDENT
Izzi is a first year PhD student who started in October 2021. Her project is in collaboration with the WelcomeLEAP Delta Tissue project, specifically, combining spatial transcriptomics and nano-needle technology to map changes in tissue states in Triple Negative Breast Cancer before, during and after treatment.

The Francis Crick Institute

Helen Spiers
Zooniverse Biomedical Research Lead
Dr Helen Spiers is the Biomedical Research Lead of the Zooniverse (www.zooniverse.org). Currently based across the University of Oxford and The Francis Crick Institute, where she is presently seconded, Dr Spiers collaborates with multiple national and international research groups to develop, deploy and novel biomedical citizen science projects. Although diverse in subject matter, these projects are united by the common aim of applying collective intelligence to perform distributed data analysis of large volumes of biomedical data. Additionally, Dr Spiers analyses the meta-data produced by the Zooniverse platform and applies citizen science to advance electron micrograph segmentation approaches. Prior to her current role, she completed a PhD in developmental epigenetics at King’s College London after obtaining a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford.