Natalie Fisher

Natalie Fisher is a Research Fellow at the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, affiliated with the Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research. Her work focuses on molecular characterization of colorectal cancer using transcriptomics and digital pathology approaches.

• Colorectal Cancer subtyping
• Tumor microenvironment analysis
• Transcriptomics data interpretation
• Digital pathology applications

Recent research outputs include developing the dualGSEA bioinformatics tool (2024) and defining pathway-level phenotypes linked to clinical outcomes in colorectal cancer. Collaborations span multiple international institutions including University of Oxford and University of Turin.

• 1st place research poster - Irish Society of Surgical Pathology Annual Meeting (2021)
• 1st place Digital Pathology/AI poster - Royal Society of Medicine (2022)

As a PhD graduate (2023), she continues to advance computational oncology through publications in Nature Genetics, Science Reports, and Nature Communications, working with leading researchers like Professors Dunne, Longley, and Lawler.