DrClaire Dunican

I am a Imperial College Research Fellow and Bioinformatician within Department of Infectious Disease (Faculty of Medicine). I joined Imperial as an undergraduate student in October 2014 and have since completed my Bachelors BSc (Biology), Masters (Bioinformatics) and my PhD (Infectious Disease) at the University.

My PhD specifically focused on developing new methods to predict patient prognosis from transcriptomic signatures in whole blood samples. My research area focuses on the transcriptomics of infectious disease in general, including understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying asymptomatic malaria infections and comparing human malarial infections to mouse models of disease at this level.

In 2022, I was joint-awarded, the Provosts Awards for Excellence in Animal Research along with colleagues from the section. I recently finished working on analysing RNA-Seq data generated from the DIAMONDS project and am hoping to expand the prototype analysis method developed during my PhD to a clinically viable prognostic tool. This is now a software tool on Github (DrClaireDunican/VeloCD) - and is freely available to the scientific community for use and development.

I am currently working on the transcriptomics, proteomics and radiomics of TB disease progression.

Open to student placements and work experience for those interested in a future scientific career (particularly in Bioinformatics) - please contact me at the email address provided. I am also interested in public outreach including giving talks and workshops at schools.