Cancer research

Dan is collaborating as a bioinformatician in several projects.

1. Characterisation of the lncRNA, MIAT1, in neuroblastoma and glioblastoma (Dr Maarabouni).
2. Identification of nucleic biomarkers of successful autologous cell transplant in the ASCOT clinical trial (Dr Karina Wright and Prof Sally Roberts).
3. Sequencing and de novo assembly of the first Horse Chestnut transcriptome.
4. Elucidating the ncRNA cargo of extracellular vesicles.
5. A key collaboration has been the development of a whole genome-scale lentiviral system and companion sequencing and bioinformatics approach to identify novel sequences associated with cell survival with the Williams’ (Keele) and Farzaneh (Prof Farzaneh, Kings) groups.