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Elaine C. Johnstone

Elaine C. Johnstone PhD

Oncology, Research and Clinical Research, Clinical Pharmacology
Oxford, England, United Kingdom

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Dr. Elaine Johnstone is the Deputy Course Director and Research Fellow in the Department of Oncology. Following a BSc in Medicinal Chemistry and Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmacology both from Newcastle University, she gained a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Bordeaux for 18 months. She then moved to Oxford University to continue studying her interests in pharmacogenetics (latterly pharmacogenomics), initially in cancer prevention through smoking cessation. She now leads the Translational Oncology Research Group in the Section of Clinical Pharmacology and her current research focuses on identifying individual differences in genes and proteins which affect response to chemotherapy in bowel cancer, with a view to tailoring treatments more effectively to each patient.
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