Prof Claude Chelala

Claude Chelala is Prof of Bioinformatics at Barts Cancer Institute. She is co-Lead for the Barts Life Sciences Precision Medicine programme aiming to unlock the longitudinal Electronic Health Record phenotype from multi-dimensional data. She leads the Health Informatics and Bioinformatics for two national biobanks (BCNTB and PCRFTB) creating an ecosystem with interlinking clinical, in vivo, in vitro and in silico resources to provide the analytical means to harness clinical data and molecular findings. Her research in breast cancer focuses on using multimodal data to explore ancestry-associated differences as well as the clinical utility of field cancerisation and imaging free-text reports in predicting cancer recurrence. Her research in pancreatic cancer uses sequential, non-invasive liquid biopsies for tracking tumour dynamics.