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The Le Quesne lab houses the deep phenotyping team which operates as a broadly collaborative spatial biology advanced technology facility alongside a research team who pursue scientific questions. The research team use pathology, molecular, and deep phenotyping data to pursue scientific questions in several key areas of respiratory tumour biology.

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Biography

Education and qualifications

  • 2012: FRCPath
  • 1999–2004: MBBS (Distinction in Medical Sciences), St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine
  • 1996–1999: PhD, Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester
  • 1992–1995: MA Natural Sciences, Robinson College, University of Cambridge

Appointments

  • 2020: Mazumdar-Shaw Professor of Molecular Pathology, University of Glasgow
  • 2020: Assistant Professor (Hon), Leicester Cancer Research Centre, University of Leicester
  • 2020: Visiting Associate Professor (Hon), University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
  • 2013–2020: Programme leader / Lead pathologist, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge
  • 2013–2020: Consultant Histopathologist (honorary), Glenfield Hospital, Leicester University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • 2013–2020: Senior Lecturer, Leicester Cancer Research Centre, University of Leicester
  • 2007–2013: CRUK Clinician Scientist Fellow, CRUK Cambridge Institute
  • 2005–2007: Trainee general surgical pathologist, Department of Histopathology, Leicester Royal Infirmary
  • 2004–2005: Pre-Registration House Officer, Leicester UHL NHS Trust

Current committee membership

  • CRUK PEACE governance Board
  • Board member, Journal of Pathology

Honours and awards

  • Associate fellowship, Higher Education Academy, 2018
  • Oakley Prize, Pathological Society, 2013
  • Foulkes Foundation Fellowship, 1999-2004

Funding

  • Celgene, Jean Shanks Foundation, Beatson Cancer Charity

Recent Publications

2026

Pardo L, Moore M, Deshmukh R, Powley I, Waldron JA, Kruspig B, McGarry L, Dolma L, Campos AV, Wood C, Leslie H, Hughes M, Jeldes E, Munro J, Mitchell L, Officer-Jones L, Baird R, Coquelet H, Jamieson NB, Sumpton D, Strathdee D, le Quesne J, Bushell M, Murphy DJ, Norman JC. Increased mRNA translation delays tumour initiation and exposes a therapeutic vulnerability in lung cancer. Mol Cancer. 2026.

Diao S, Zou JY, Wang S, Chan JE, Kortlever RM, Poulain N, Ghaddar N, Kim H, Evan GI, Koumenis C, Hatzoglou M, Walter P, Sonenberg N, Le Quesne J, Tammela T, Koromilas AE. Integrated stress response couples mitochondrial fitness with lineage reprogramming to drive cancer evolution. Nat Cell Biol. 2026.

Raffo-Iraolagoitia XL, McFarlane AJ, Laing S, Corbyn R, Arnott LWG, Fercoq F, McGarry L, Secklehner J, De Donatis M, Mackey JBG, Kruspig B, Wiesheu R, Hsieh YC, Shaw R, Rakovic K, Le Quesne J, Clark G, Nixon C, Miller C, Kirschner K, Bain CC, Murphy DJ, Coffelt SB, Carlin LM. Vγ1 γδ T cells steer airway macrophages toward a profibrotic response in an autochthonous lung cancer mouse model. Sci Adv. 2026;12(10):eadu8802.

Williams HL, Poulain N, Powley I, Martinelli S, Bielik R, Leslie H, Nixon C, Wilson CR, Sereno M, He Z, Officer-Jones L, Ballantyne F, Pennie R, Wood CS, Lewis DY, Jamieson NB, Le Quesne J. Spatial Molecular Plasticity Underpins Lethal Morphologies in Lung Adenocarcinoma. Mod Pathol. 2026:100960.

2025

Baird RL, Mason D, Rakovic K, Ballantyne F, Powley IR, Georgakopoulou A, Hillary L, Bird TG, Officer-Jones L, Le Quesne J. PixlMap: A generalisable pixel classifier for cellular phenotyping in multiplex immunofluorescence images. PLoS One. 2025;20(12):e0317865.

Kanellos G, Giacomelli C, Raven A, Vlahov N, Jin H, Herviou P, Malla SB, Nasreddin N, Centeno PP, Alexandrou C, Gilroy K, Baird RL, Pennel K, Munro J, Waldron JA, Hall H, Officer-Jones L, Bryson S, Strathdee D, Lilla S, Zanivan S, Morrison V, Nixon C, Ridgway RA, Miller C, Knight JRP, Campbell AD, Dunne PD, Le Quesne J, Edwards J, Park PJ, Bushell M, Sansom OJ. Nucleophosmin supports WNT-driven hyperproliferation and tumor initiation. Nat Genet. 2025;58:100-115.

Müller M, May S, Hall H, Kendall TJ, McGarry L, Blukacz L, Nuciforo S, Georgakopoulou A, Jamieson T, Phinichkusolchit N, Dhayade S, Suzuki T, Huguet-Pradell J, Powley IR, Officer-Jones L, Pennie RL, Esteban-Fabró R, Gris-Oliver A, Pinyol R, Skalka GL, Leslie J, Hoare M, Sprangers J, Malviya G, Mackintosh A, Johnson E, McCain M, Halpin J, Kiourtis C, Nixon C, Clark G, Clark W, Shaw R, Hedley A, Drake TM, Tan EH, Neilson M, Murphy DJ, Lewis DY, Reeves HL, Le Quesne J, Mann DA, Carlin LM, Blyth K, Llovet JM, Heim MH, Sansom OJ, Miller CJ, Bird TG. Human-correlated genetic models identify precision therapy for liver cancer. Nature. 2025.

Pich O, Ward S, Rowan A, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Shutkever O, Martinez-Ruiz C, Harries S, Hessey S, Naidu B, Brenton JD, Le Quesne J, Thomas A, Richards C, Krebs MG, Turajlic S, Jogai S, Zaccaria S, Moore D, Hiley CT, Swanton C, Jamal-Hanjani M, McGranahan N. Somatic evolution following cancer treatment in normal tissue. Nature. 2025.

Roche JJ, Seyedshahi F, Rakovic K, Thu AW, Le Quesne J, Blyth KG. Current and future applications of artificial intelligence in lung cancer and mesothelioma. Thorax. 2025.

Seyedshahi F, Rakovic K, Poulain N, Claudio Quiros A, Powley IR, Richards C, Uraiby H, Klebe S, Moore DA, Nakas A, Wilson CR, Sereno M, Officer-Jones L, Ficken C, Teodosio A, Ballantyne F, Murphy D, Yuan K, Le Quesne J. A histomorphological atlas of resected mesothelioma discovered by self-supervised learning from 3446 whole-slide images. Nat Commun. 2025;16(1):8891.

White M, Mills ML, Millett LM, Gilroy K, Hong Y, Zeiger LB, Simpson RJ, Corry SM, Ligeza A, Lannagan TRM, Susanti S, Ridgway RA, Yazgili AS, Grzesiak L, Amirkhah R, Ford CA, Vlahov N, Tovell H, Officer-Jones L, Ficken C, Pennie R, Najumudeen AK, Raven A, Nasreddin N, Chauhan E, Papanastasiou AS, Nixon C, Morrison V, Jackstadt R, Graham JS, Miller CJ, Ross SJ, Barry ST, Pavet V, Wilson RH, Le Quesne J, Dunne PD, Tejpar S, Leedham S, Campbell AD, Sansom OJ. MAPK-driven epithelial cell plasticity drives colorectal cancer therapeutic resistance. Nature. 2025.

2024

Claudio Quiros A, Coudray N, Yeaton A, Yang X, Liu B, Le H, Chiriboga L, Karimkhan A, Narula N, Moore DA, Park CY, Pass H, Moreira AL, Le Quesne J, Tsirigos A, Yuan K. Mapping the landscape of histomorphological cancer phenotypes using self-supervised learning on unannotated pathology slides. Nat Commun. 2024;15(1):4596.

Pan X, AbdulJabbar K, Coelho-Lima J, Grapa AI, Zhang H, Cheung AHK, Baena J, Karasaki T, Wilson CR, Sereno M, Veeriah S, Aitken SJ, Hackshaw A, Nicholson AG, Jamal-Hanjani M, Swanton C, Yuan Y, Le Quesne J, Moore DA. The artificial intelligence-based model ANORAK improves histopathological grading of lung adenocarcinoma. Nat Cancer. 2024.

Seyedshahi F, Rakovic K, Poulain N, Quiros AC, Powley IR, Richards C, Uraiby H, Klebe S, Nakas A, Wilson C, Sereno M, Officer-Jones L, Ficken C, Teodosio A, Ballantyne F, Murphy D, Yuan K, Le Quesne J. A histomorphological atlas of resected mesothelioma from 3446 whole-slide images discovered by self-supervised learning. bioRxiv. 2024:2024.2011.2018.624103.

Williams HL, Poulain N, Powley I, Martinelli S, Bielik R, Leslie H, Nixon C, Wilson CR, Sereno M, He Z, Officer-Jones L, Ballantyne F, Pennie R, Wood CS, Lewis DY, Jamieson NB, Le Quesne J. Spatial resolution of transcriptomic plasticity states underpinning lethal morphologies in lung adenocarcinoma. bioRxiv. 2024:2024.2006.2011.598228.

Chou TY, Dacic S, Wistuba I, Beasley MB, Berezowska S, Chang YC, Chung JH, Connolly C, Han Y, Hirsch FR, Hwang DM, Janowczyk A, Joubert P, Kerr KM, Lin D, Minami Y, Mino-Kenudson M, Nicholson AG, Papotti M, Rekhtman N, Roden AC, Thunnissen E, von der Thüsen JH, Travis W, Tsao MS, Yatabe Y, Yeh YC, Bubendorf L, Chang WC, Denninghoff V, Fernandes Tavora FR, Hayashi T, Hofman P, Jain D, Kim TJ, Lantuejoul S, Le Quesne J, Lopez-Rios F, Matsubara D, Noguchi M, Radonic T, Saqi A, Schalper K, Shim HS, Sholl L, Weissferdt A, Cooper WA. Differentiating separate primary lung adenocarcinomas from intrapulmonary metastases with emphasis on pathological and molecular considerations: Recommendations from the IASLC Pathology Committee. J Thorac Oncol. 2024.

2023

Hatthakarnkul P, Ammar A, Pennel KAF, Officer-Jones L, Cusumano S, Quinn JA, Matly AAM, Alexander PG, Hay J, Andersen D, Lynch G, van Wyk HC, Maka N, McMillan DC, Le Quesne J, Thuwajit C, Edwards J. Protein expression of S100A2 reveals it association with patient prognosis and immune infiltration profile in colorectal cancer. J Cancer. 2023;14:1837-1847.

Hendrix E, Andrijes R, Boora U, Kaur A, Bundred JR, Officer-Jones L, pennie r, Powley I, Zayer A, Heilig R, Westrip CAE, Fletcher SF, Eaton CD, Kennedy TJ, Piasecka S, Fischer R, Smerdon SJ, Quesne JL, Coleman ML. A protein hydroxylase couples epithelial membrane biology to nucleolar ribosome biogenesis. bioRxiv. 2023;Volume:2023.2003.2015.532818.

Farahmand P, Gyuraszova K, Rooney C, Raffo-Iraolagoitia XL, Jayasekera G, Hedley A, Johnson E, Chernova T, Malviya G, Hall H, Monteverde T, Blyth K, Duffin R, Carlin LM, Lewis D, Le Quesne J, MacFarlane M, Murphy DJ. Asbestos accelerates disease onset in a genetic model of malignant pleural mesothelioma. Frontiers in Toxicology. 2023;5.

Frankell AM, Dietzen M, Al Bakir M, Lim EL, Karasaki T, Ward S, Veeriah S, Colliver E, Huebner A, Bunkum A, Hill MS, Grigoriadis K, Moore DA, Black JRM, Liu WK, Thol K, Pich O, Watkins TBK, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Cook DE, Salgado R, Wilson GA, Bailey C, Angelova M, Bentham R, Martínez-Ruiz C, Abbosh C, Nicholson AG, Le Quesne J, Biswas D, Rosenthal R, Puttick C, Hessey S, Lee C, Prymas P, Toncheva A, Smith J, Xing W, Nicod J, Price G, Kerr KM, Naidu B, Middleton G, Blyth KG, Fennell DA, Forster MD, Lee SM, Falzon M, Hewish M, Shackcloth MJ, Lim E, Benafif S, Russell P, Boleti E, Krebs MG, Lester JF, Papadatos-Pastos D, Ahmad T, Thakrar RM, Lawrence D, Navani N, Janes SM, Dive C, Blackhall FH, Summers Y, Cave J, Marafioti T, Herrero J, Quezada SA, Peggs KS, Schwarz RF, Van Loo P, Miedema DM, Birkbak NJ, Hiley CT, Hackshaw A, Zaccaria S, Jamal-Hanjani M, McGranahan N, Swanton C. The evolution of lung cancer and impact of subclonal selection in TRACERx. Nature. 2023; 616: 525–533

Karasaki T, Moore DA, Veeriah S, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Toncheva A, Magno N, Ward S, Bakir MA, Watkins TBK, Grigoriadis K, Huebner A, Hill MS, Frankell AM, Abbosh C, Puttick C, Zhai H, Gimeno-Valiente F, Saghafinia S, Kanu N, Dietzen M, Pich O, Lim EL, Martínez-Ruiz C, Black JRM, Biswas D, Campbell BB, Lee C, Colliver E, Enfield KSS, Hessey S, Hiley CT, Zaccaria S, Litchfield K, Birkbak NJ, Cadieux EL, Demeulemeester J, Van Loo P, Adusumilli PS, Tan KS, Cheema W, Sanchez-Vega F, Jones DR, Rekhtman N, Travis WD, Hackshaw A, Marafioti T, Salgado R, Le Quesne J, Nicholson AG, McGranahan N, Swanton C, Jamal-Hanjani M. Evolutionary characterization of lung adenocarcinoma morphology in TRACERx. Nat Med. 2023; 29: 833–845

Laing S, Kruspig B, Shaw R, Officer-Jones L, Edwards S, McKinven D, Hsieh Y-C, Powley I, Brady N, Pennie R, Kwan R, Lima A, Myrta S, Periyasamy M, Dye IC, Nixon C, Clark G, Junttila MR, Maddalo D, Miller C, Ali S, Fuchter MJ, Nickles D, Kirschner K, Brown RB, Quesne JL, Strathdee D, Coffelt SB, Roberts E, Murphy DJ. ERBB signalling contributes to immune evasion in KRAS-driven lung adenocarcinoma. bioRxiv. 2023:2023.2007.2024.550274.

May S, Müller M, Livingstone CR, Skalka GL, Walsh PJ, Nixon C, Hedley A, Shaw R, Clark W, Voorde JV, Officer-Jones L, Ballantyne F, Powley IR, Drake TM, Kiourtis C, Keith A, Rocha AS, Tardito S, Sumpton D, Le Quesne J, Bushell M, Sansom OJ, Bird TG. Absent expansion of AXIN2+ hepatocytes and altered physiology in Axin2CreERT2 mice challenges the role of pericentral hepatocytes in homeostatic liver regeneration. J Hepatol. 2023; 78: 1028-1036

Moore M, Pardo L, Mitchell L, Schmidt T, May S, Mueller M, Strathdee D, Bryson S, Hodge K, Lilla S, Zanivan S, Waldron J, McGarry L, Peter-Durairaj R, Kanellos G, Nixon C, Ballantyne F, LeQuesne J, Sansom OJ, Bird T, Bushell M, Norman JC. The eIF4A2 negative regulator of mRNA translation promotes extracellular matrix deposition to accelerate hepatocellular carcinoma initiation. bioRxiv. 2023;Volume:2023.2008.2016.553544.

Román-Fernández A, Mansour MA, Kugeratski FG, Anand J, Sandilands E, Galbraith L, Rakovic K, Freckmann EC, Cumming EM, Park J, Nikolatou K, Lilla S, Shaw R, Strachan D, Mason S, Patel R, McGarry L, Katoch A, Campbell KJ, Nixon C, Miller CJ, Leung HY, Le Quesne J, Norman JC, Zanivan S, Blyth K, Bryant DM. Spatial regulation of the glycocalyx component podocalyxin is a switch for prometastatic function. Sci Adv. 2023;9:eabq1858.

Schmidt T, Dabrowska A, Waldron JA, Hodge K, Koulouras G, Gabrielsen M, Munro J, Tack DC, Harris G, McGhee E, Scott D, Carlin Leo M, Huang D, Le Quesne J, Zanivan S, Wilczynska A, Bushell M. eIF4A1-dependent mRNAs employ purine-rich 5’UTR sequences to activate localised eIF4A1-unwinding through eIF4A1-multimerisation to facilitate translation. Nucleic Acids Research. 2023; 51: 1859–1879

Thunnissen E, Beasley MB, Borczuk A, Dacic S, Kerr KM, Lissenberg-Witte B, Minami Y, Nicholson AG, Noguchi M, Sholl L, Tsao MS, Le Quesne J, Roden AC, Chung JH, Yoshida A, Moreira AL, Lantuejoul S, Pelosi G, Poleri C, Hwang D, Jain D, Travis WD, Brambilla E, Chen G, Botling J, Bubendorf L, Mino-Kenudson M, Motoi N, Chou TY, Papotti M, Yatabe Y, Cooper W. Defining Morphologic Features of Invasion in Pulmonary Nonmucinous Adenocarcinoma With Lepidic Growth: A Proposal by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Pathology Committee. J Thorac Oncol. 2023;18:447-462.

Waldron JA, Kanellos G, Smith RCL, Knight JRP, Munro J, Alexandrou C, Vlahov N, Pardo-Fernandez L, Moore M, Gillen SL, Strathdee D, Stevenson D, Warrander FC, Gilroy K, Nixon C, Cadden B, Powley I, Officer-Jones L, Ballantyne F, Hay J, Pennel K, Edwards J, Campbell AD, Ridgway RA, Coffelt SB, Norman J, Quesne JL, Bushell M, Sansom OJ. eIF4A1 is essential for reprogramming the translational landscape of Wnt-driven colorectal cancers. bioRxiv. 2023:2023.2011.2010.566546.

Zhang H, AbdulJabbar K, Moore DA, Akarca A, Enfield K, Jamal-Hanjani M, Raza SEA, Veeriah S, Salgado R, McGranahan N, Le Quesne J, Swanton C, Marafioti T, Yuan Y. Spatial positioning of immune hotspots reflects the interplay between B and T cells in lung squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Res. 2023; 83:1410–1425.

Zhang H, AbdulJabbar K, Grunewald T, Akarca AU, Hagos Y, Sobhani F, Lecat CSY, Patel D, Lee L, Rodriguez-Justo M, Yong K, Ledermann JA, Le Quesne J, Hwang ES, Marafioti T, Yuan Y. Self-supervised deep learning for highly efficient spatial immunophenotyping. EBioMedicine. 2023;95:104769.

2022

Kamata T, Al Dujaily E, Alhamad S, So TY, Margaritaki O, Giblett S, Pringle JH, Le Quesne J, Pritchard C. Statins mediate anti- and pro-tumourigenic functions by remodelling the tumour microenvironment. Dis Model Mech. 2022;15:dmm049148

2021

Ghaddar N, Wang S, Woodvine B, Krishnamoorthy J, van Hoef V, Darini C, Kazimierczak U, Ah-Son N, Popper H, Johnson M, Officer L, Teodósio A, Broggini M, Mann KK, Hatzoglou M, Topisirovic I, Larsson O, Le Quesne J, Koromilas AE. The integrated stress response is tumorigenic and constitutes a therapeutic liability in KRAS-driven lung cancer. Nat Commun. 2021;12(1):4651.

Grosso S, Marini A, Gyuraszova K, Voorde JV, Sfakianos A, Garland GD, Tenor AR, Mordue R, Chernova T, Morone N, Sereno M, Smith CP, Officer L, Farahmand P, Rooney C, Sumpton D, Das M, Teodósio A, Ficken C, Martin MG, Spriggs RV, Sun XM, Bushell M, Sansom OJ, Murphy D, MacFarlane M, Le Quesne JPC, Willis AE. The pathogenesis of mesothelioma is driven by a dysregulated translatome. Nat Commun. 2021;12:4920.

Knight JRP, Alexandrou C, Skalka GL, Vlahov N, Pennel K, Officer L, Teodosio A, Kanellos G, Gay DM, May-Wilson S, Smith EM, Najumudeen AK, Gilroy K, Ridgway RA, Flanagan DJ, Smith RCL, McDonald L, MacKay C, Cheasty A, McArthur K, Stanway E, Leach JD, Jackstadt R, Waldron JA, Campbell AD, Vlachogiannis G, Valeri N, Haigis KM, Sonenberg N, Proud CG, Jones NP, Swarbrick ME, McKinnon HJ, Faller WJ, Le Quesne J, Edwards J, Willis AE, Bushell M, Sansom OJ. MNK Inhibition Sensitizes KRAS-Mutant Colorectal Cancer to mTORC1 Inhibition by Reducing eIF4E Phosphorylation and c-MYC Expression. Cancer Discov. 2021;11(5):1228-1247.

Ntala C, Salji M, Salmond J, Officer L, Teodosio AV, Blomme A, McGhee EJ, Powley I, Ahmad I, Kruithof-de Julio M, Thalmann G, Roberts E, Goodyear CS, Jamaspishvili T, Berman DM, Carlin LM, Le Quesne J, Leung HY. Analysis of Prostate Cancer Tumor Microenvironment Identifies Reduced Stromal CD4 Effector T-cell Infiltration in Tumors with Pelvic Nodal Metastasis. Eur Urol Open Sci. 2021;29:19-29.

Phatak V, von Grabowiecki Y, Janus J, Officer L, Behan C, Aschauer L, Pinon L, Mackay H, Zanivan S, Norman JC, Kelly M, Le Quesne J, Muller PAJ. Mutant p53 promotes RCP-dependent chemoresistance coinciding with increased delivery of P-glycoprotein to the plasma membrane. Cell Death Dis. 2021;12(2):207.

2020

AbdulJabbar K, Ahmed Raza SE, Rosenthal R, Jamal-Hanjani M, Veeriah S, Akarca A, Lund T, Moore DA, Salgado R, Al Bakir M, Zapata L, Hiley CT, Officer L, Sereno M, Smith CR, Loi S, Hackshaw A, Marafioti T, Quezada SA, Nicholas McGranahan N, Le Quesne J, TRACERx Consortium, Swanton C, Yuan Y. Geospatial Immune Variability Illuminates Differential Evolution of Lung Adenocarcinoma Nature Medicine. 2020; 26(7): 1054-62

Curtin N, Bányai K, Thaventhiran J, Le Quesne J, Helyes Z, Bai P. Repositioning PARP inhibitors for SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19); a new multi-pronged therapy for ARDS? Br J Pharmacol. 2020; 177(16): 3635-45

Officer LK, Andreou KE, Teodósio AV, He Z, Le Quesne JP. Automated Co-in Situ Hybridization and Immunofluorescence Using Archival Tumor Tissue Methods Mol Biol 2020; 2148: 245-56

Sereno M, Smith C, Baena J, He Z, Das M, Hastings R, Rake G, Fennell D, Nakas A, Moore D, Le Quesne J. Inclusion of multiple high-risk histopathological criteria improves the prediction of adjuvant chemotherapy efficacy in lung adenocarcinoma Journal of Pathology, 2020; 78: 838-848

Zhang YZ, Brambilla C, Molyneaux PL, Rice A, Robertus JL, Jordan S, Lim E, Lang-Lazdunski L, Begum S, Dusmet M, Anikin V, Beddow E, Finch J, Asadi N, Popat S, Le Quesne J, Husain AN, Cookson WO, Moffatt MF, Nicholson AG. Presence of pleomorphic features but not growth patterns improves prognostic stratification of epithelioid malignant pleural mesothelioma by 2-tier nuclear grade Histopathology 2020; 77(3): 423-36

2019

Rakhit C, Trigg RM, Le Quesne J, Kelly M, Shaw JA, Pritchard C, Martins LM. Early detection of pre-malignant lesions in a KRASG12D-driven mouse lung cancer model by monitoring circulating free DNA Dis Model Mech, 2019 Feb 12;12(2):dmm036863

Rosenthal R, Cadieux EL, Salgado R, Bakir MA, Moore DA, Hiley CT, Lund T, Tanić M, Reading JL, Joshi K, Henry JY, Ghorani E, Wilson GA, Birkbak NJ, Jamal-Hanjani M, Veeriah S, Szallasi Z, Loi S, Hellmann MD, Feber A, Chain B, Herrero J, Quezada SA, Demeulemeester J, Van Loo P, Beck S, McGranahan N, Swanton C; TRACERx consortium. Neoantigen-directed immune escape in lung cancer evolution Nature 2019; 567: 479-85. This landmark study of the primary tumour tissues from the TraceRx cohort shows how tumours evolve under natural selection to evade the human immune system.

Moore D, Das M, Baena Acevedo J, Sinnadurai S, Sereno M, Smith C, McSweeney A, Su X, Officer L, Jones C, Dudek K, Guttery D, Spriggs R, Le Quesne J. In situ growth in early lung adenocarcinoma may represent precursor growth or invasive clone outgrowth – a clinically relevant distinction Modern Pathology 2019; 32: 1095-105

Fercoq F, Remion E, Frohberger SJ, Vallarino-Lhermitte N, Hoerauf A, Le Quesne J, Landmann F, Hübner MP, Carlin LM, Martin C. IL-4 receptor dependent expansion of lung CD169+ macrophages in microfilaria-driven inflammation PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019; 13(8): e7691

Officer LK, Andreou KE, Teodósio AV, He Z, Le Quesne J. Automated co-in situ hybridization and immunofluorescence using archival tumour tissue Methods Mol Biol. 2020; 2148: 245-56

Wilczynska A, Gillen S, Schmidt T, Meijer H, Jukes-Jones R, Langlais C, Kopra K, Lu W-T, Godfrey J, Hawley B, Hodge K, Zanivan S, Cain K, Le Quesne J, Bushell M. eIF4A2 drives repression of translation at initiation by Ccr4-Not through purine-rich motifs in the 5’UTR Genome Biology 2019 Dec 2;20(1):262

Waldron J, Tack D, Ritchey L, Wilczynska A, Turro E, Bevilacqua P, Assmann S, Bushell M, Le Quesne J. mRNA structural elements immediately upstream of the start codon dictate dependence upon eIF4A helicase activity Genome Biology 2019 Dec 30;20(1):300

Al-Dujaily E, Baena J, Das M, Sereno M, Smith C, Kamata T, Officer L, Pritchard C, Le Quesne J. Reduced pro-tumourigenic tumour-associated macrophages with statin use in premalignant human lung adenocarcinoma JNCI Cancer Spectrum 2019 Dec 13;4(2):pkz101

2018

Kolluri KK, Alifrangis C, Kumar N, Ishii Y, Price S, Michaut M, Williams S, Barthorpe S, Lightfoot H, Busacca S,Sharkey A, Yuan Z, Sage EK, Vallath S, Le Quesne J, Tice DA, Alrifai D, von Karstedt S, Montinaro A, Guppy N, Waller DA, Nakas A, Good R, Holmes A, Walczak H, Fennell DA, et al. Loss of functional BAP1 augments sensitivity to TRAIL in cancer cells eLife 2018 Jan 18;7:e30224

Waldron J, Raza F, Le Quesne J. eIF4A alleviates the translational repression mediated by classical secondary structures more than by G-quadruplexes Nucleic Acids Research 2018 Apr 6;46(6):3075-87

Mackay H, Moore D, Hall C, Birkbak N, Jamal-Hanjani M, Karim S, Pathak V, Pinon L, MortonJ, Swanton C, Muller P, Le Quesne J. Genomic instability in mutant p53 cancer cells upon entotic engulfment Nature Communications 2018 Aug 3;9(1):3070

Arce Vargas F, Furness AJS, Litchfield K, Joshi K, Rosenthal R, Ghorani E, Solomon I, Lesko MH, Ruef N, Roddie C, Henry JY, Spain L, Ben Aissa A, Georgiou A, Wong YNS, Smith M, Strauss D, Hayes A, Nicol D, O'Brien T, Mårtensson L, Ljungars A, Teige I, Frendéus B; TRACERx Melanoma; TRACERx Renal; TRACERx Lung consortia, et al. Fc effector function contributes to the activity of human anti-CTLA-4 antibodies Cancer Cell 2018 Apr 9;33(4):649-663.e4

Lazarus KA, Hadi F, Zambon E, Bach K, Santolla M-F, Watson JK, Correia LL, Das M, Ugur R, Pensa S, Becker L, Campos LS, Ladds G, Pentao L, Evan G, McCaughan F, Le Quesne J, Lee J-H, Calado D, Khaled WT. BCL11A interacts with SOX2 to control the expression of epigenetic regulators in lung squamous cell carcinoma Nature Communications 2018 Aug 20;9(1):3327

Kruspig B, Monteverde T, Neidler S, Hock A, Kerr E, Nixon C, Clark W, Hedley A, Laing S, Coffelt SB, Le Quesne J, Dick C, Vousden K, Martins CP, Murphy DJ. The ERBB network facilitates KRAS-driven lung tumorigenesis Science Translational Medicine 2018 Jun 20;10(446):eaao2565

Amelio I, Mancini M, Petrova V, Cairns RA, Vikhreva P, Nicolai S, Marini A, Antonov AA, Le Quesne J, Baena Acevedo JD, Dudek K, Sozzi G, Pastorino U, Knight RA, Mak TW, Melino G. p53 mutants cooperate with HIF-1 in transcriptional regulation of extracellular matrix components to promote tumor progression Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2018 Nov 13;115(46):E10869-E10878

2017

Karekla E, 6. Liao WJ, Sharp B, Pugh J, Reid H, Le Quesne JP, Moore D, Pritchard CA, MacFarlane M, Pringle JH. Ex vivo explant cultures of non-small cell lung carcinoma enable evaluation of primary tumor responses to anticancer therapy Cancer Research 2017; 77:2029-2039

Jamal-Hanjani M, Wilson GA, McGranahan N, Birkbak NJ, Watkins TBK, Veeriah S, Shafi S, Johnson DH, Mitter R, Rosenthal R, Salm M, Horswell S, Escudero M, Matthews N, et al. Tracking the Evolution of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer New Engl J Med. 2017 Jun 1;376(22):2109-2121

Abbosh C, Birkbak NJ, Wilson GA, Jamal-Hanjani M, Constantin T, Salari R, Le Quesne J, Moore DA, Veeriah S, Rosenthal R, Marafioti T, Kirkizlar E, Watkins TBK, McGranahan N, et al. Phylogenetic ctDNA analysis depicts early stage lung cancer evolution Nature 2017 Apr 26;545(7655):446-451

Arce Vargas F, Furness AJS, Solomon I, Joshi K, Mekkaoui L, Lesko MH, Miranda Rota E, Dahan R, Georgiou A, et al. Fc-Optimized Anti-CD25 Depletes Tumor-Infiltrating Regulatory T Cells and Synergizes with PD-1 Blockade to Eradicate Established Tumors Immunity 2017 Apr 18;46(4):577-86

Chernova T, Murphy F, Galavotti S, Sux X, Powley IR, Grosso S, Schinwald A, Zacarias-Cabeza J, Dudek K, Dinsdale D, Le Quesne J, Bennet J, Nakas A, Greaves P, Poland CA, Donaldson K, Bushell M, Willis AE, MacFarlane M. Long-Fiber Carbon Nanotubes Replicate Asbestos-Induced Mesothelioma with Disruption of the Tumor Suppressor Gene Cdkn2a (Ink4a/Arf) Current Biology 2017 Nov 6;27(21):3302-14.e6

McGranahan N, Rosenthal R, Hiley CT, Rowan AJ, Watkins TBK, Wilson GA, Birkbak NJ, Veeriah S, Van Loo P, Herrero J, Swanton C; TRACERx Consortium. Allele-specific HLA loss and immune escape in lung cancer evolution Cell 2017 Nov 30;171(6):1259-1271.e11

2016

Hiley CT, Le Quesne J, Santis G, Sharpe R, de Castro DG, Middleton G, Swanton C. Challenges in molecular testing in non-small-cell lung cancer patients with advanced disease The Lancet 2016 Sep 3;388(10048):1002-11

Blows FM, Ali HR, Dawson SJ, Le Quesne J, Provenzano E, Caldas C, Pharoah PD. Decline in Antigenicity of Tumor Markers by Storage Time Using Pathology Sections Cut From Tissue Microarrays Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2016 Mar;24(3):221-6

Busacca S, Law EW, Powley IR, Proia DA, Sequeira M, Le Quesne J, Klabatsa A, Edwards JM, Matchett KB, Luo JL, Pringle JH, El-Tanani M, MacFarlane M, Fennell DA. Resistance to HSP90 inhibition involving loss of MCL1 addiction Oncogene 2016 Mar 24;35(12):1483-92