Rebecca O'Brien PhD
@RebeccaOBtcd
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Postdoctoral Researcher with Thoracic Oncology @CancerInstIRE | Establishing patient-derived organoids🔬 | All views are my own.
Dublin City, Ireland
Joined October 2018
Delighted to be awarded PhD Researcher of the year at the @IrishCancerSoc Awards! A pleasure to present alongside such talented PhD researchers @Adele_EC @Ilievangelov1 👩🔬🧑🔬 Huge thanks to @IrishCancerSoc & my wonderful supervisors @Niamh_LL @JoanneLysaght for their support!
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Was delighted to be in Venice this week presenting our recent work and continuing the discussion on New Approach Methodologies for NanoGenotoxicity Screening at #NanoTox2024 ! 🧬🧫🇮🇹 @LBCAM_TCD @prinamea
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So proud of our amazing @CluB_Cancer1 #Phd Candidates @VolgaMSaini & @fayee_lewis supporting #WorldGODay2024 @WorldGOday 💜@TCDTMI
@tcdTBSI @CancerInstIRE @TCDPharmacy @QUBelfast @QubPGJCCR @pharmacyatQUB @pilib_ @hea_irl #NSRPproject.
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2/2 Massive thank you to my PIs @Niamh_LL and @JoanneLysaght , our fantastic collaborators, @IrishCancerSoc for funding this important study and especially all patients who donated samples to research. https://t.co/w0gLAldcHA
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1/2 Delighted to see some of my PhD research published! 🔬Our study investigated complement in radioresistant rectal cancer. Highlights include: 🧫C3 modulates radioresistance in CRC cell lines 🩸↑C5b-9 in pre-tx sera associates with poor response to neo-CRT and poor RFS & OS
Huge congrats @RebeccaOBtcd who led our study demonstrating a role for complement in radioresistant rectal cancer @CancerInstIRE @TrinityMed1. Huge thanks to collaborators, the patients who donated samples and @IrishCancerSoc for funding this work
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Congrats @eabhaosullivan0 on a really excellent presentation showing your fantastic research on #KRAS #drugresistance @TCDTMI @CancerInstIRE @stjamesdublin @KRASKickers Looking forward to progressing this exciting research #lcsm🧐 👩🔬
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Delighted to win best talk at the @TCDTMI Research Blitz on Friday!😁 Wonderful to share some of the exciting work @eabhaosullivan0 and I have been doing with patient-derived organoids 🧫👩🏻🔬👩🏻🔬 Huge congrats to my fellow winners @grainnejameson @RebeccaGLyons & @Snowwwweeeee 🥳
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@aisling_heeran giving a fantastic overview of her work on FKBPL and radioresistance in Oesophageal cancer at the IRRS annual meeting #IRRS2024
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@fayee_lewis our @CancerInstIRE @CluB_Cancer1 PhD student and recipient of the 2024 Patrick G. Johnston Award for Excellence in Cancer Research Outreach at @News_IACR pledging her support to raise awareness of #HPV cancers on International HPV Awareness day. #OneLessWorry
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Great teamwork today explaining #Biobanks #LiquidBiopsy & #CancerResearch with insightful demos @TCDTMI to the next generation of TY STEMM students👏 The future is bright⭐️⭐️ @hea_irl @CancerInstIRE @stjamesdublin #lcsm
Pics today from our TY Student Lecture and Demo on the Liquid Biopsy with our @CluB_Cancer1 Scientists @oner_ez & @VolgaMSaini. The Future is Bright! #SharedIsland Research Program @TCDTMI @tcdTBSI @CancerInstIRE @TCDPharmacy @QubPGJCCR @CancerUniGalway @hea_irl #NSRPproject.
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Had a wonderful few days at #EAI2024. Very grateful to showcase our #PDO models of hard-to-treat cancers with my lab sister @RebeccaOBtcd 👩🏻🔬💛 Thanks to everyone who viewed our work, our project leads @kathygately1 @JacinthaOS Maeve Lowery and collaborators @LegendBiotech 🎉
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Fantastic 3 days at the EACR-AACR-IACR conference! Highlight was presenting our tumour organoid research with my lab sister @eabhaosullivan0 👩🏻🔬👩🏻🔬 Huge thanks to project leads @kathygately1 @JacinthaOS and Maeve Lowery & collaborators @LegendBiotech! @CancerInstIRE #PDOs
Fantastic to see the great work of @eabhaosullivan0 & @RebeccaOBtcd on our tumour #organoid development research presented @EACRnews @LegendBiotech @JacinthaOS @TCDTMI @CancerInstIRE @stjamesdublin
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I am honoured to have won the national Patrick G. Johnston Award for Excellence in Cancer Research Outreach at the @News_IACR satellite meeting yesterday. Thank you to all those invovled, particularly @Shotoole81 @wardm6TCD and the patient partners #ovariancancer
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Great scientists👩🏼🔬👩🏻🔬 Great lollipops 🍭 Great cause🔬 Donate at
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National Charity For Oesophageal Cancer in Ireland
Fundraising today at @TCDTMI for @OesophagealCF, thank you all for donating! You can also donate on their website https://t.co/fk7pjTd9eq 🍭
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Delighted to present some of our research funded by @BreakthroCancer at the @CancerInstIRE research blitz last Friday and to learn about the wide range of research happening in our cancer institute! Thanks to my supervisors @DrMelissaConroy @JoanneLysaght for their support
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Great to see @Lorrainesmith_1 present her translational research work as an @AllCaN_BCR funded PhD scholar at the @CancerInstIRE research day today in @TCDTMI
@BreakthroCancer
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🎉 What an absolute blast representing @TCDTMI at this year's @TheRunInTheDark 10K charity run!🏃💨 The event lights up the night and helps raise money for the cure of paralysis through CollaborativeCures💡🏥 I just about finished 😅🥵 but happy we collectively raised €228🎉🥳
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📢Dr Kathy Gately has been instrumental in key breakthroughs in cancer research at St James’s Hospital. Learn more about her career as part of the profile series on our #researchMATTERS blog now. #EuropeanResearchersNight #STARTatERN ⬇️ 🔗 https://t.co/uXQMfhSGKt
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Thinking of Ashling, her family, and home today ❤️
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Delighted to receive my PhD from @tcddublin on Friday 🎓 Huge thanks to my amazing supervisors @Niamh_LL & @JoanneLysaght and also to @IrishCancerSoc for their support💛 Very proud of the excited undergrad who started back in 2014🔬🥼 #PhDone @CancerInstIRE
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Fantastic #liquidbiopsy research also presented @CluB_Cancer1 Symposium by Dr Brian Henderson on bloods best kept secret and @fayee_lewis on novel markers of CTCs in #ovariancancer 🔬 @CancerInstIRE @CancerInstIRE
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