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Professor Jessica Okosun

at St Bartholomew's Hospital

Jessica Okosun is a Consultant Haematologist at Barts Health NHS Trust and Professor of Translational Cancer Research at Barts Cancer Institute, with expertise in lymphomas. She received her medical degree from Cambridge University and completed her specialist haematology training at Royal Free Hospital and UCLH. 

Prof Okosun was awarded her PhD in 2015 on the genomics of follicular lymphoma, and received the Royal College of Pathologists Specialty Research Medal for her work. 

Prof Okosun has both clinical and research interests in lymphoma and has numerous published articles in peer-reviewed journals including Blood, Nature Genetics and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Prof Okosun serves as a member of the UK NCRI Low and High Grade Lymphoma, Primary CNS Lymphoma and Lymphoma Science study groups. She is actively involved in clinical trials and is the Science Lead on a number of UK Phase II and III Lymphoma Clinical trials.

She is a regular invited speaker at national and international educational courses and conferences including European Haematology Association (EHA), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), European School of Haematology (ESH) and American Society of Haematology (ASH).

Treatments and procedures

Treatments include: diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of lymphomas and CLL including chemotherapy, immunochemotherapy, targeted therapies, CAR-T, stem cell transplantation and clinical trials

Research interests

Professor Okosun leads a research group at the Barts Cancer Institute focussed on lymphoma biology. Her research investigates why patients’ lymphomas behave differently and why there are variations in response to certain treatments and how this drives relapse with the goal of defining novel predictive and prognostic biomarkers that can be translated to clinical practice. Her group employ a range of cutting-edge technologies and computational biology approaches to study these lymphomas.

She leads the translational research on a number of ongoing UK clinical trials in follicular lymphoma, primary CNS lymphoma and mantle cell lymphoma. 

Leadership roles

  • Prof Okosun is the Chair of the Patient and Public Involvement Research Advisory Group and Academic Co-Lead for the Tissue Bank at the Barts Cancer Institute
  • She serves on a number of national and international committees including EHA Research Committee, Cancer Research UK Clinical Research Committee and British Society of Haematology Research and Grants Committee
  • Prof Okosun is on the Editorial Board for Lancet Haematology, Blood Advances and is Associate Editor for Haematologica
  • Prof Okosun is involved in teaching undergraduate, postgraduate, medical students and trainee doctors at QMUL and Barts Health NHS Trust
Speciality
Consultant services Cancer
Languages Spoken English
GMC number 6115572
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