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Jaine Blayney is a Senior Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast's School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, based in the Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research. She leads research in translational bioinformatics and stratified medicine, focusing on cancer progression pathways, biomarker development, and statistical modelling.
Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to health and innovation. Research interests include genomic data analysis, drug sensitivity mechanisms, and clinical trial translational studies. She has led/co-investigated major projects such as the Health Data Research UK initiative and immune landscape studies in oesophageal cancer.
Blayney has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles, with recent work emphasizing spliceosome mutations' therapeutic implications, immune environment modulation in cancer therapy, and synthetic antibody engineering. She holds notable awards including the 2023 Advanced Data Science Practitioner certification and 2019 NI Women's Award for scientific contribution.
In addition to her research, she actively participates in academic activities including editorial roles for JNCI Cancer Spectrum, PhD examinations, and national initiatives such as the Athena SWAN Gold Medical Schools network. She supervises translational bioinformatics PhD projects requiring interdisciplinary skills in maths, computing, and life sciences.
