Serena Nik Zainal
Principal investigator dr serena nik zainal s josef steiner award is for her successful application to accelerate holistic cancer genome interpretation towards genomic medicine mphil student selected to participate in roche continents 2019.
Serena nik zainal. The mother of two who studies mutation patterns in human dna at the prestigious university of cambridge in the united kingdom is also a lover of music. While driver mutations were the main focus of cancer research for a long time passenger mutations are also biologically informative. Dr serena nik zainal cruk advanced clinician scientist and former wellcome sanger institute group leader serena was a career development fellow cdf group leader in the cancer genome project.
Her story elicited strong reactions from around the world. Signatures of mutagenesis in somatic cells alumni. Dr serena nik zainal research staff.
Dr serena nik zainal. The mother of two who studies mutation patterns in human dna at the prestigious university of cambridge in the. Dr nik zainal died on october 29 2007 was a well known cardiologist and part of the team to perform the first coronary by pass surgery in the country on october 22 1982.
Cruk advanced clinician scientist and former wellcome sanger institute group leader. Biography publications physiology of mutagenesis. In 2018 serena wrote an article entitled the duty to speak up for scientific journal nature cell biology.
Serena is a cruk advanced clinician scientist and an honorary consultant in clinical genetics. A cancer genome carries the scars of historic mutagenic activity that has occurred throughout the development of the tumour. Dr xueqing zou post doctoral fellow dr andrea degasperi post doctoral fellow dr tauanne amarante dias post doctoral fellow dr cherif badja post doctoral fellow dr helen davies senior research associate jamie young laboratory manager dr jan czarnecki web developer.
Kuala lumpur oct 18 when dr serena nik zainal is not burying her head in cancer genome research she finds herself outdoors and dabbles in the chinese martial art of kung fu. Serena qualified in medicine from the university of cambridge in 2000. Dr serena nik zainal and her family.
She undertook a phd at the wellcome sanger institute wsi in 2009 exploring breast cancer using whole genome sequencing wgs. Dr serena nik zainal has shown that when one has the commitment and drive for excellence the sky is the limit.