Research
Research grants
Development of a novel chick embryo model to discover and investigate therapeutics for uveal melanoma metastatic to the liver.
NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH INCORPORATING CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER RESEARCH (UK)
September 2023 - October 2027
Modelling the interplay between uveal melanoma cells and macrophages
SIGHT RESEARCH UK (UK)
February 2022 - February 2023
Advances in 3D cellular modelling of uveal melanoma: exploring the generation and utilisation of uveal melanoma cancer organoids.
THE PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY (UK)
February 2023 - June 2024
To address DNA repair mechanisms in uveal melanoma
ROYAL LIVERPOOL AND BROADGREEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS (UK)
October 2015 - March 2020
Joint PhD Studentship Between University of Szegad, Hungary and the University of Liverpool - Study to Investigate Tumour Associated Macrophages
ROYAL LIVERPOOL AND BROADGREEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS (UK)
October 2015 - March 2019
Exosome biogenesis: the role of sortilin in cancer development and progression
NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH INCORPORATING CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER RESEARCH (UK)
January 2016 - April 2019
Investigating in vivo resistance mechanisms to MEK inhibitors in uveal melanoma to enable novel combinatorial therapies.
NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH INCORPORATING CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER RESEARCH (UK)
March 2016 - May 2019
Kinome-wide analysis of KRASand MYC driven cancer cell models exposed to clinical kinase and bromodomain inhibitors
NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH INCORPORATING CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER RESEARCH (UK)
September 2014 - August 2017
Molecular characteristics of metastatic liver lesions in uveal melanoma: the search for therapeutic targets.
ROYAL LIVERPOOL AND BROADGREEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS (UK)
January 2012 - March 2024
Bench fees for Rasha Swadi
REPUBLIC OF IRAQ MINISTRY OF EDUCATION🚩
October 2014 - September 2018
Biosample collection from the SUAVE trial in uveal melanoma – TRANS-SUAVE
CANCER RESEARCH UK (UK)
November 2010 - October 2013
Research collaborations
Mersey Academic Plastic Surgery Group
Examining the role and function of inhibitory isoforms of VEGF in ocular melanoma
Professor Henrik Vorum
Aarhus University
Proteomic studies using specimens from uveal melanoma patients of high and low risk
Professor Graham Williams
Imperial College London
Collaborative research investigating the biological effects of the different thyroid hormone receptor isoforms on longitudinal bone growth