Dr Jon Lees
BSc Hons, MRes, PhD
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics
Bristol Medical School
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
AI-driven target identification for cancer anti-metastasis drugs
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Engineering Mathematics and TechnologyDates
12/10/2026 to 31/07/2027
Identifying precision prevention strategies for obesity related cancers through enhanced understanding of biological mechanisms and risk prediction: the Obesity-related Cancer Epidemiology Programme (OCEP)
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/02/2026 to 31/01/2031
Deep Learning for CAR-T cell therapy optimisation
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
10/10/2022 to 09/06/2024
Publications
Recent publications
01/04/2026Biallelic variants in RNU2-2 cause the most prevalent known recessive neurodevelopmental disorder
Nature Genetics
In Silico Discovery and Characterization of a Novel Nuclear Transcription Factor-Y (NF-Y) Inhibitor with Antimitogenic Properties
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Mutations in the U2 snRNA gene RNU2-2P cause a severe neurodevelopmental disorder with prominent epilepsy.
Nature Genetics
Broad functional profiling of fission yeast proteins using phenomics and machine learning
eLife
Zebrafish as a model for cardiac disease; Cryo-EM structure of native cardiac thin filaments from Danio Rerio
Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility
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