Simon Furney

🌼🏵️📣TODAY IS DAFFODIL DAY📣🏵️🌼 Be sure to keep an eye out for our street sellers and boxes all over the country today to purchase your Daffodil pin to show your support for those affected by cancer in Ireland💛 There are also plenty of other ways to #ShowYourSupport:🏵️

Looking for an experienced Research Fellow in Cancer Bioinformatics to join my group at @RCSI_Irl @RCSI_Research It’s a 3-year position at Research Fellow level (salary €59k). Details at rcsi.com/careers

@Nicola_Lady @Endoadapt @RCSI_Irl @BreastCancerIre @oesterreichs @Adrianvlee @FergusCouch @damirvareslija @RCSI_Research Well done Nicola et al!

Delighted to share that PhD research conducted at my former lab @Endoadapt @RCSI_Irl funded by @BreastCancerIre in collaboration with @oesterreichs @Adrianvlee @FergusCouch is out now! #bcbm

@mcdade_lab @valentinajnt @SiobhanGlavey @RCSI_Research Congratulations to Valentina!! And thanks to Simon @mcdade_lab and Siobhan @SiobhanGlavey for acting as examiners. @mcdade_lab - we'll have you down for a drink to celebrate in the not too distant future I hope!

Congratulations to the new Dr Thomas @valentinajnt from the Furney lab @TheCancerGenome. Very enjoyable afternoon as remote external examiner with @SiobhanGlavey from @RCSI_Research. Shame we cannot get out for a celebratory drink!!

Suggestions to fix Genomic Medicine in Ireland: 1. State funds national genome project. 2. State acquires Genomics Medicine Ireland / Genuity sequencing facility for national genome project. 3. State retrieves genomic data of people whose genomes have already been sequenced.

Lessons learnt from Genomics Medicine Ireland: 1. Don't give your DNA / genome to a company who can sell it on. 2. Don't invest taxpayers' money in a company that is going to up sticks at the first opportunity. 3. Invest in a public national genome project. But we knew this...

This was always going to happen (again). What a waste of money and so frustrating!! Why did State put €66m into a private DNA firm instead of a national genomics initiative? irishtimes.com/business/techn… via @IrishTimes

The road to addressing Long Covid science.sciencemag.org/content/373/65…

Hiring! 2 year Postdoctoral Fellow in Cancer Bioinformatics position in my research group at @RCSI_Irl @RCSI_Research my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal…

Genomics England is receiving funding from @DHSCgovuk for projects supporting the implementation of the #GenomeUK strategy. #furturehealthcare #genomicsresearch #lifesciences

Read the Milestones in Genomic Sequencing collection, highlighting advances in DNA sequencing technology in the 21st century go.nature.com/3cW1Zm9 @NatureRevGenet @nature

20 years after the first draft of the human genome - a wealth of discovery built on the Human Genome Project — by the numbers nature.com/articles/d4158…

Postdoctoral Fellow in Cancer Genome Data Analysis position in my group at @RCSI_Irl next year. Apply at my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal… @RCSI_Research

"Ireland needs to enter the 21st century and .... establish a national genomics project." irishtimes.com/business/techn…

@betterbeaumont @RCSI_Irl @IanReynolds2 @SurgeryNUIG @nuigalway @fjobrien @Physiologyadmin What a fantastic achievement, with great support from Dr Simon Furney and @RCSI_Irl PhD student Valentina Thomas @TheCancerGenome @valentinajnt @CentreSysmed

WGS study from former PhD student Ian Reynolds and current PhD student Valentina Thomas on Mucinous Adenocarcinoma of the Rectum now out, showing new and potentially targetable genomic and microbial alterations @FrontOncology @TheCancerGenome @CentreSysmed frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

An umbrella approach to test lung cancer therapies nature.com/articles/d4158…

This week on the Nature cover: Encode. Phase three of the encyclopedia of DNA elements. Browse the issue here: go.nature.com/3jQjrcL

Great be involved in this breast cancer genomics collaboration. I'd like to acknowledge support from @BREAST_PREDICT @RCSI_Research @ichec