Salem Nazani

Doctorate Student

Salem completed an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and an MRes in Cancer studies at Newcastle University. He is currently working on a PhD project at Newcastle within the Hepatocellular Carcinoma Expediter Network (HUNTER), looking for markers of treatment response amongst liver cancer patients receiving transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) treatment.

Conferences:

• BASL Basic Science Retreat (London, August 2023)- Oral presentation: “HUNTER: Hepatocellular Carcinoma Expediter Network. An update - moving towards predictive biomarker discovery.”
• Celebration of NIHR Newcastle BRC Research Excellence (Newcastle, March 2024)- Poster presentation: “Developing liquid biopsy biomarkers for HCC”
• EASL Liver Cancer Summit (Paris, February 2025)- Poster presentation: “ An immature neutrophil signature associated with response to transarterial chemoembolization”