Francesca Buffa
- The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in the Clinical School of the University of Oxford
- Scientist at the University of Oxford
Francesca Buffa received her Masters degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Turin, Italy, in 1997. In 2001 she gained her PhD at The Institute of Cancer Research, University of London, United Kingdom (UK), where she worked on research projects in the areas of biomathematics, medical physics, radioisotope physics and molecular imaging. In 2005 she joined the Molecular Oncology Laboratories at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, where research in molecular biology is translated directly to the study of human disease. Here she is working in national and international research projects in the areas of bioinformatics, biostatistics, computational genomics, molecular oncology and biomarkers. She has also taught at international schools and provided bioinformatics/biostatistics expertise for genomics and clinical research. Currently she is involved in collaborative projects aimed towards discovering, validating and integrating prognostic and predictive markers in cancer, as well as providing insight into the tumour microenvironment in relation to progression and metastasis.