Richard Heery

Profile

Bio: I completed my PhD in computational biology at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) in Milan where I developed computational methods to study DNA methylation alterations and the associated transcriptional changes in cancer.

Project: I have continued to work on DNA methylation as a post-doctoral research assistant in Dr. Alexandre de Mendoza’s group studying the evolution and inheritance patterns of DNA methylation patterns in eukaryotes using computational approaches.

Research

Publications

Heery, R., & Schaefer, M. H. (2021). DNA methylation variation along the cancer epigenome and the identification of novel epigenetic driver events. Nucleic Acids Research, 49(22), 12692-12705.

Heery, R., Finn, S. P., Cuffe, S., & Gray, S. G. (2017). Long non-coding RNAs: key regulators of epithelial-mesenchymal transition, tumour drug resistance and cancer stem cells. Cancers, 9(4), 38.