Prof Julia Newton-Bishop

Professor Julia Newton-Bishop

Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine,
St James's Hospital/University of Leeds
Leeds

Finding skin cancer genes

Professor Julia Newton-Bishop works in the Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology of the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine. She studies people with family histories of melanoma skin cancer.

Her team has found several inheritable faults in a gene called CDKN2A that increase the risk of melanoma and, possibly, pancreatic cancer.

Nature or nurture?

Professor Newton-Bishop's team is also looking at how our lifestyle choices interact with our genes to affect our risk of cancer. They are studying how sun exposure and melanoma genes jointly affect a person's chances of getting skin cancer.

Professor Newton-Bishop is also running a large study to look for more melanoma genes that specifically affect a patient's chances of survival.

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