Helen Rowe @RoweLab
Discovery science driven. Hope to contribute to translating discoveries into new medicines.
- How do pluripotent stem cells resist harmful interferon responses to safeguard development? Through total epigenetic lockdown of ligands, sensors and effectors of IFN-I. In our preprint, James Holt shares his PhD discoveries on the ground state of immune evasion 😊: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
- What's on the horizon of cancer immunotherapies? Understanding epigenetic checkpoints, we say 😊: news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/09/11/l...
- Looking forward to this meeting this week: Transposable elements are controlling elements in health and disease, genetics.org.uk/events/the-r... organised by the Genetics Society 😊
- I’m happy to announce that I’ve been promoted to Professor! 🥳 I’m so grateful to everyone who has supported me, to my amazing lab members and to all who have made my scientific journey fun along the way ☀️. Thank you Queen Mary University!
- I am thrilled and incredibly proud that recent PhD student @Liane Fernandes from my lab @QMUL has won a prestigious EMBO Fellowship! Exciting science ahead ❤️ 🏆
- How do tumours evade destruction by the immune system? We are recruiting two postdocs (wet lab/dry lab) to shed light on epigenetic checkpoints of anti-tumour immunity in lung cancers, funded by CRUK. Please get in touch to find out more! www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci... www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...
- I am honoured to receive a Programme Foundation Award from Cancer Research UK on epigenetic regulation of immune evasion in non-small cell lung cancer. Thanks to my co-investigators, collaborators, mentors, lab & @qmulepigenetics.bsky.social for supporting this exciting translational project.
- We are recruiting computational and wet-lab scientists and support international candidates. Please reach out if you are interested in working with us: Dark antigens, interferon responses, transposable elements, the HUSH complex, immuno-epigenetics and MORE....❤️
- Enlightening review from @KathleenHBurns lab: genesdev.cshlp.org/content/37/2...: LINE-1 activity and jumping contributes to genetic instability in cancer and understanding LINE-1 deregulation could lead to new therapeutic opportunities. A must-read.
- Elegant preprint identifying mutually exclusive targeting of HUSH1 vs. HUSH2 chromatin complexes for silencing dangerous LINE-1 elements in the human genome: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
