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Staff Profile

Dr Jack Roberts

Vivensa Foundation Early Career Fellow

Background

Biography

I am a Vivensa Foundation ECR Fellow based in the Skeletal Research Group at Newcastle University, investigating novel effector genes likely to be implicated in knee osteoarthritis. You can read more about this project here.


For research updates, please check my Google Scholar or Bluesky pages.


Qualifications

PhD in Genetics - Newcastle University, 2024

MRes Medical Genetics - Newcastle University, 2019

BSc (Hons) Biology - Manchester Metropolitan University, 2016


Research

Publications

Roberts, J. B., Rockel, J. S., Mulders, R., Capellini, T. D., Appleton, C. T., Phanstiel, D. H., ... & Kapoor, M. (2025). From mechanism to medicine: The progress and potential of epigenetics in osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and cartilage open, 7(3), 100621.


Roberts, J. B., Boldvig, O. L., Aubourg, G., Kanchenapally, S. T., Deehan, D. J., Rice, S. J., & Loughlin, J. (2024). Specific isoforms of the ubiquitin ligase gene WWP2 are targets of osteoarthritis genetic risk via a differentially methylated DNA sequence. Arthritis Research & Therapy, 26(1), 78.


Roberts, J. B., & Rice, S. J. (2024). Osteoarthritis as an enhanceropathy: gene regulation in complex musculoskeletal disease. Current rheumatology reports, 26(6), 222-234.


Rice, S. J., Roberts, J. B., Tselepi, M., Brumwell, A., Falk, J., Steven, C., & Loughlin, J. (2021). Genetic and epigenetic fine‐tuning of TGFB1 expression within the human osteoarthritic joint. Arthritis & Rheumatology, 73(10), 1866-1877.

Teaching

Supervision

During my PhD studies and in my current role, I have co-supervised five undergraduate and two MRes students.

Publications