Dr Claire Adams
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Dr Claire Adams

Laboratory Manager

Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health: Medicine, Dentistry and Human Sciences)

Role

Laboratory Manager for the Biomedical Research laboratories at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.

Qualifications

NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
HCPC registered Clinical Scientist in Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.
PhD in Antibody Engineering (University of Bath).
BSc (Hons) Biological and Medicinal Chemistry (Exeter University).

Professional membership

Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science

Member of the:
British Association of Cancer Research (BACR)
UK Pharmacogenetics and Stratified Medicine Network 


Research interests

Research expertise in Renal and Stem Cell Transplantation, Immunogenetics, Cancer research, Biomarkers
Immunology and Biobanking. At present, I work within Prof Oliver Hanemann's research group genotyping brain tumours to aid the develop of personalised medicine.

Key publications are highlighted

Journals
Articles
Provenzano L, Ryan Y, Hilton DA, Lyons-Rimmer J, Dave F, Maze EA, Adams CL, Rigby-Jones R, Ammoun S 2017 'Cellular prion protein (PrPC) in the development of Merlin-deficient tumours' Oncogene , DOI PEARL
Bassiri K, Ferluga S, Sharma V, Syed N, Adams CL, Lasonder E & Hanemann CO 2017 'Global Proteome and Phospho-proteome Analysis of Merlin-deficient Meningioma and Schwannoma Identifies PDLIM2 as a Novel Therapeutic Target' EBioMedicine , DOI PEARL
Palles C, Chegwidden L, Li X, Findlay JM, Farnham G, Castro Giner F, Peppelenbosch MP, Kovac M, Adams CL 2015 'Polymorphisms Near TBX5 and GDF7 Are Associated With Increased Risk for Barrett’s Esophagus' Gastroenterology 148, (2) 367-378 , DOI PEARL
Carey BS, Jain R, Adams CL, Wong KY, Shaw S, Tse WY & Kaminski ER 2013 'Serum neopterin as an indicator of increased risk of renal allograft rejection' Transplant Immunology 28, 81-85 , DOI
Chin GK, Adams CL, Carey BS, Shaw S, Tse W-Y & Kaminski ER 2008 'The value of serum neopterin, interferon-gamma levels and interleukin-12B polymorphisms in predicting acute renal allograft rejection' Clinical & Experimental Immunology 152, (2) 239-244 , DOI
Adams CL 2004 'Differences in the kinetics, amplitude, and localization of ERK activation in anergy and priming revealed at the level of individual primary T cells by laser scanning cytometry' J Immunol , DOI
Adams CL, Macleod MKL, James Milner-White E, Aitken R, Garside P & Stott DI 2003 'Complete analysis of the B-cell response to a protein antigen, from in vivo germinal centre formation to 3-D modelling of affinity maturation' Immunology 108, (3) 274-287 , DOI PEARL
Conference Papers
Baiz D, Negroni C, Ferluga S, Ercolano E, Adams C & Hanemann CO 2018 'High miR-9 levels represent a novel prognostic biomarker to predict development of malignant meningioma' 25th Biennial Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR25) Amsterdam 30/06/2018 03/07/2018 PEARL
Posters
Baiz D, Negroni C, Ferluga S, Ercolano E, Adams C & Hanemann CO Baiz D, Negroni C, Ferluga S, Ercolano E, Adams C & Hanemann CO 0 'Circulating miR-9 levels as a novel prognostic biomarker for highergrade meningioma' 0 0 PEARL
Negroni C, Ercolano E, Adams C, Hilton D, Baiz D & Hanemann CO Negroni C, Ercolano E, Adams C, Hilton D, Baiz D & Hanemann CO 0 'The transcription factor GATA4 is overexpressed in malignant meningioma enhancing proliferation via downregulation of miR-15 family members' 0 0 PEARL