Over the last 10-15 years there has been minimal progress in the treatment of Brain Cancer. Research is vital.
We provide vital Research funding to the Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research at Queen’s University Belfast.
In recent years our fundraising has enabled us to provide funding of more than £500,000 towards research.
Brainwaves NI Studentship
Brainwaves NI is delighted to announce that thanks to our generous fundraisers, we have been able to provide a further £100,000 to further support the PGJCCR in the form of a 3 Year PHD Studentship.
The Research Team
Dr. Seyed Mehdi Jafarnejad
Principal Investigator / Reader in Cancer RNA biology
Dr Seyed Mehdi Jafarnejad obtained his PhD in Experimental Medicine from The University of British Columbia in Vancouver (2008-2012), working on dysregulated mechanisms of gene expression during melanoma metastasis. This was followed by postdoctoral training at McGill University in Montreal (2013-2018), during which his research on mRNA biology led to several important discoveries, revealing the processes by which mRNA translation is dysregulated in diseases such as cancer, neurological disorders, and during viral infections.
Mehdi joined the Patrick Johnston Centre for Cancer Research at Queen’s University Belfast in 2019 as a Principal Investigator. His group currently focuses on mechanisms of regulation of mRNA translation and decay, alterations in these mechanisms induced by chemotherapeutic drugs, and how these mechanisms contribute to therapy-resistance in cancer.