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The William Harvey Research Institute - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Dr Pilar Cacheiro

Pilar

Lecturer in Computational Biology

Centre: Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine (CPPM)

Email: p.cacheiro@qmul.ac.uk

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ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6335-8208

Dr Cacheiro holds a BSc in Biology (University of A Coruña, Spain), a MSc in Statistics and a PhD in Molecular Medicine from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The focus of Pilar´s 13-year research career, initially with a clinical neurogenetics group (Genomic Medicine, USC) and currently at the WHRI, has been to contribute to identifying the molecular basis of human disease and to improve our understanding of gene function. 

The ultimate goals of Pilar’s research are to assist in diagnosing patients affected by rare disorders and to decipher the full spectrum of gene intolerance to loss-of-function variation. This works builds on her strong understanding of model organism data, phenotype ontologies and human genetics. Her main interest is in understanding the mechanisms leading to gene essentiality, and more specifically, to prenatal lethality in humans.

The research outputs reflect efforts to improve the diagnosis of Mendelian conditions by highlighting relevant models for human disease and leveraging information from model organisms, human cell line assays, and large-scale human sequencing studies to identify novel disease genes.

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