Dr Elaine Johnstone

Deputy Course Director and module lead on the MSc in Experimental and Translational Therapeutics.

Biography

Dr Elaine Johnstone is a Translational Research Scientist with a BSc in Medicinal Chemistry, an MSc in Molecular Pathology and Toxicology and a PhD in Molecular Pharmacology. Her PhD at the Cancer Research Unit, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, was the seed of the start of a career researching drug pharmacology, pharmacodynamics and personalised/precision medicine. After a fellowship studying differential drug response in sarcoma at the University of Bordeaux, her Oxford career initially focussed on cancer prevention, via optimising smoking cessation therapies.

She has more recently focussed on studying biomarkers of prognosis and of treatment effectiveness within clinical trials (predominantly colorectal cancer) in the Department of Oncology.

She has more than 20 years of experience in translational research and 50+ publications in the area.