Staff Profile
Abigail Gault
Clinical Res Associate
- Email: abigail.gault@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Translational and Clinical Research Institute
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE2 4HH
I am a Medical Oncology Registrar with an honorary clinical contract at Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals working between the Northern Centre for Cancer Care and Sir Bobby Robson ECMC, my clinical areas of interest are melanoma and NSCLC.
I am currently undertaking a CRUK funded PhD investigating the role of the microbiome in autoimmunity, with particular interest in the immune related adverse events of treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors. My supervisors are Dr Amy Anderson, Professor Ruth Plummer, Dr Arthur Pratt and Dr Chris Stewart.
I am treasurer of the National Oncology Trainees' Collaborative for Healthcare Research, and contribute to their research outputs within the Newcastle team.
I am also one of the faculty of medical sciences post graduate research school representatives for the institute of Translational & Clinical Research, a role which I job-share with Michael Alexander.