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Dr Casmir Turnquist

Fellow, Junior Research Fellow

NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

BM BCh, DPhil Oxford

Casmir is a medical doctor and postdoctoral researcher focusing on the molecular mechanisms underlying childhood and young adult brain and spinal tumours and neurotoxicity resulting from cancer treatment.

She spends part of her time as a Specialty Registrar in Cellular Pathology at the John Radcliffe Hospital and part conducting research as NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Casmir leads a project to understand how fusion genes, defined by the abnormal merging of two genes and a hallmark of childhood and young adult cancers, drives tumour behaviour and could be therapeutically targeted in aggressive cranial-spinal cancers. She is also involved in a project to understand how chemo- and radiotherapy affect the developing brain at a spatial and cell-type specific resolution with the aim of improving cognitive outcomes following cancer treatments. She currently supervises two DPhil students and teaches medical students in Oxford.

She was awarded a PhD Fellowship though the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program in Cancer Biology and then conducted Postdoctoral Research at the National Cancer Institute, NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, USA studying the effect of radiation and chemotherapy on the brain. She then completed Graduate-Entry Medicine and clinical training in Oxford. She is currently the Oxford Hub Leader for the International Biomedical Research Alliance and a regional representative for the Association al Clinical Pathologists Trainee Group.