People
Carolyn Jones
Research Assistant
School/Department: Leicester Drug Discovery and Diagnostics (LD3)
Email: [email protected]
Profile
Translational research support role within Leicester Drug Discovery and Diagnostics (LD3) as part of the Institute of Precision Health.
Leicester Drug Discovery and Diagnostics supports translational research within the College of Life Sciences, providing pump-prime funding opportunities from sequential MRC Confidence In Concept awards to researchers to accelerate the development of medicines, therapies, diagnostic tests and devices with ‘real world benefit’ for patients.
Research
Carolyn joined LD3 in May 2018 and has supported various projects using molecular biology and genomics techniques. These include an oncology project to validate a cancer diagnostics test using tNGS, RNA extractions for RNA-Seq towards clinical trial support, and setting up the UoL/UHL COVID-19 testing service during the pandemic.
Carolyn has extensive industry background with AstraZeneca and a variety of lab experience, particularly DNA/RNA work and Next-Gen sequencing/qPCR. Carolyn also holds a current Honorary UHL contract, and has worked in Quality Managed labs – GCLP and ISO accredited.