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Emily Tinsley

Emily Tinsley

Student
Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
Cohort 4
Email: emilytinsley22@rcsi.com
Supervisor: Simon Furney

I completed a BSc in Medical Genetics at the University of Leicester in 2020 which was followed by a 9-month internship at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). Here I was carrying out high-level curation for both the PGS and GWAS catalogs. I then did a MSc in Precision Medicine at the University of Leeds focusing on the use of pigmentation-based polygenic scores in melanoma.

My particular interests lie in cancer genomics and my current PhD project focuses on the characterisation of mutations in methyl-transferases predominantly in breast cancer.