Imperial College London

ProfessorHectorKeun

Faculty of MedicineDepartment of Surgery & Cancer

Professor of Biochemistry
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 3161h.keun

 
 
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Location

 

officesInstitute of Reproductive and Developmental BiologyHammersmith Campus

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Summary

 

Overview

Dr Keun's research programme centres on the application of small molecule profiling (metabolomics & small RNA sequencing) to problems in oncology and toxicology . His current work includes:

  • using systems biology to understand and exploit post-transcriptional regulation of metabolism by microRNAs and RNA splicing
  • identifying translational biomarkers of drug toxicity
  • investigating metabolic inhibitors as an anti-cancer therapies
  • measuring metabolic risk factors for cancer in population studies
  • understanding the links between lifetime environmental exposure ('the exposome') and health outcomes

Dr Keun's research is supported by Cancer Research UK, EU-FP7/Horizon 2020, AstraZeneca/BBSRC Prostate Cancer UK

Collaborators

HANI GABRA, SORA, IC

Guest Lectures

College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, 2013

College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 2013

International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics, Amsterdam, 2012

Session speaker, European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 2012

30th Heidelberg Grand Round, German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), 2011

Research Student Supervision

Rana,S, Systematic analysis of prognostic and predictive miRNA-mRNA networks in Prostate Cancer