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DR. SARAH AITKEN

Assistant Professor - Yale University

Clinician Scientist - University of Cambridge

Sarah Aitken is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and a member of the Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology (CMCO) at Yale Cancer Center. She holds a CRUK Clinician Scientist Fellowship (University of Cambridge) and is a Board Certified Pathologist, specialised in gastrointestinal and molecular pathology.

Sarah trained in Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, with an intercalated BMedSci in Experimental Pathology and postgraduate MSc in Translational Medicine. She undertook a mixed experimental-computational PhD at the CRUK Cambridge Institute, followed by an EMBO bioinformatics fellowship at the IRB Barcelona. She then completed her Histopathology training (Board Certification) in Cambridge as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and subsequently NIHR Clinical Lecturer. Sarah started her independent research group at the University of Cambridge in 2021, before relocating to Yale University.

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DR. CLAUDIA ARNEDO PAC

Postdoc - University of Cambridge

MRC

Claudia Arnedo Pac is a postdoctoral researcher in computational biology.

Claudia undertook her PhD in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics with Prof. Núria López-Bigas at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) Barcelona, Spain.

Prior to that, Claudia completed her undergraduate studies in Biomedicine (University of Barcelona) and Masters in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain).

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DR. JOSE COELHO-LIMA

Postdoc - University of Cambridge

NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow

Jose Coelho-Lima is an Academic Clinical Fellow in histopathology at the University of Cambridge with an interest in cardiothoracic pathology.

He undertook his medical education at the Federal University of Maranhao (Brazil), as well as an intercalated degree and PhD in molecular cardiology at Newcastle University.

Jose's research project is using artificial intelligence to analyse whole-slide imaging/digital pathology of non-small cell lung cancer.

His ambition is to combine expertise in histopathology, molecular, and digital analyses to improve our understanding, diagnosis, and risk stratification of lung and heart diseases.

HASHIM AHMED NUR

PhD student - University of Cambridge

MRC

Hashim Ahmed Nur is a PhD student at the MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge. In his PhD, he is exploring the molecular and genomic responses to DNA damaging agents in the context of liver toxicity.

Prior to commencing his PhD, he completed a Masters by research in cancer biology at Imperial College London where he carried out two distinct research projects.

Hashim’s research interests include drug development and how targeted therapies can be used to overcome chemotherapy resistance in the treatment of cancer.