
Dr. Mark Tangney
Principal Investigator within the Cork Cancer Research Centre in UCC, Senior Investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland, Director of the UCC SynBioCentre and interim Head of the iEd Hub
Mark is a Principal Investigator at Cancer Research@UCC, Senior Investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland, Director of the UCC SynBioCentre and interim Head of the iEd Hub.
Interests include associations between bacteria and cancer, development of microbes as cancer therapeutics and diagnostics; Synthetic Biology; and entrepreneurship.
Mark has previously worked at various international institutions (Los Angeles, Boston, Copenhagen) and published extensively in the fields of cancer and microbiology.
Mark also serves as Vice Secretary General of the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy of Cancer (ISCGT) and member of the editorial board of several international journals.
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