Dr. Alice O'Farrell

Research Programme Manager

I graduated from Loughborough University in 2005 with a BSc in Human Biology. I subsequently completed a Masters at Cranfield University in Molecular Medicine before embarking on a Cancer Research UK funded PhD at the Institute of Cancer Therapeutics at the University of Bradford, which I completed in 2011. During this time I established a panel of bioluminescent colorectal cell lines which were used to analyse the effects of various anticancer agents, including vascular disrupting agents, in a variety of tumour models.

I moved to RCSI in 2012 as a Marie Curie Fellow to work on the AngioTox project where I performed the preclinical imaging experiments. I have subsequently worked on a number of projects where I have led the preclinical imaging and tumour model studies.

In 2017 I moved into research programme management as the Project Manager for GLIOTRAIN, an RCSI-led H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Network. I currently work on the GLIORESOLVE project, which is a follow-on project to GLIOTRAIN and is an RCSI-lead Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Network.