Meet Mariam, a co-investigator on CANCAN and eDyNAmiC
Dr Mariam Jamal-Hanjani is a lung medical oncologist and cancer researcher at the University College London Cancer Institute. Her early research in chromosomal instability and intratumour heterogeneity demonstrated the prognostic relevance of genomic instability in lung cancer. In 2012 she was awarded a CRUK Clinical Research Fellowship to complete her PhD studies for which she was awarded the McElwain and the Sylvia Lawler Scientific Prizes. In 2016 she was awarded an NIHR Clinical Lectureship to continue to her work in the field of cancer evolution in the UK-wide TRACERx and PEACE studies. In 2021 she was awarded a CRUK Career Establishment Award to study the biological processes driving metastatic disease and death in lung cancer, including tumour- and host-initiated mediators of cachexia, and failure of the adaptive immune system leading to tumour immune escape.