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Aideen O'Neill

MBBS MRCP FRCPath


MRC- funded Clinical Research Training Fellow

I am a clinical haematologist and recently completed my DPhil, funded by an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship in the haematopoietic transplantation and immunotherapy group of Prof. Ronjon Chakraverty (second supervisor: Prof. Cristina lo Celso (Imperial College/ Francis Crick Institute)).  Through my DPhil, I investigated a bone marrow stromal subset called leptin receptor + mesenchymal stromal cells (LepR+ MSCs), and their potential role in supporting anti-leukaemia T cells.  

Prior to this, I completed my undergraduate degree in medicine at University College London.  After qualifying I was awarded an NIHR Academic Foundation Post at UCL and an Academic Clinical Fellowship, also at UCL. 

I am interested in the potential to target bone marrow stromal changes as a route to improving adoptively-transferred T cell and molecular anti-leukaemia therapies. 

Confocal image of bone marrow LepR+ MSCs (in green) as delineated using a reporter for LepR; blood vessels are shown in red; collected using a x40 objective at 0.75 um intervals in the Z plane.