Eleanor Jayawant

Eleanor Jayawant

Postdoctoral Researcher

Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Eleanor studied her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Warwick, and has qualifications in Molecular Cell Biology (Sussex) and Biochemistry (Manchester).

She has experience working with both computer simulations and laboratory experiments, and enjoys working on biological problems using a variety of techniques. Eleanor previously worked in the Mitchell team on Therapeutic targeting of refractory/relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma through systems biology with funding from a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. She has now moved to the Pepper team working on a Blood Cancer UK funded project entitled ‘Using NF-kB ‘fingerprints to identify therapeutic vulnerabilities within subsets of B cell malignancies’.

Interests
  • Biochemical basis of disease
  • Simulating biological systems and molecules
  • Cell signalling
  • Molecular biology
  • Multidisciplinary approaches