Dr Niamh Lynam-Lennon
Honorary Treasurer
Dr Lynam-Lennon is currently a Research Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator in the Dept. of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, where she works in the area of chemoradiation therapy resistance in gastrointestinal cancer.
She leads a research team focused on two main areas; prediction of response to therapy and identification of novel treatment strategies to enhance the tumour response to therapy, with the ultimate goal of improving treatment and survival for patients. Her research spans several topical areas including miRNA and gene expression profiling, altered mitochondrial function and energy metabolism, altered inflammation and cancer stem-like cells in treatment resistance.
Dr Lynam-Lennon’s work has resulted in a number of important publications and she has received several prestigious awards such as a Health Research Board-funded Emerging Investigator Grant Award 2017, Roche Researcher of the Year Award 2010, Irish Radiation Research Society Young Investigator Award 2013 and European Association for Cancer Research Young Scientist Award (Junior Award) 2014, for her work. Her research is funded by grants from the Health Research Board, Irish Cancer Society and the Irish Research Council.
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The Irish Association for Cancer Research supported five Educational Grants in 2020. These were made available to postgraduate PhD researchers who had been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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