Rowan Barker-Clarke

HiI am an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow, carrying out my research at Cleveland Clinic Lerner Institute. I work with Jacob Scott, MD, DPhil; Theory Division and Andrew Dhawan, MD, DPhil. My interests lie in cancer informatics, digital medicine, and novel biomarkers of cancer evolution.

Education

I obtained an integrated bachelor's and master's degree in physics at the University of Oxford, Hertford College (2011 to 2015). Interested in the biomedical applications of maths and physics, I attended the University of Cambridge for my PhD program (Wellcome Trust Mathematical Genomics and Medicine). My doctoral thesis was supervised by Prof. James Brenton, MD, PhD, at the University of Cambridge's Cancer Research UK Institute, and I graduated in October 2020.

Postdoctoral

In 2021, I moved to the United States to undertake my postdoctoral studies at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Institute. Under the mentorship of Professors Andrew Dhawan and Jacob Scott, I am currently leveraging machine learning and mathematics to study the dynamics of wearable sensor data during clinical cancer treatment. I am funded by an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, researching the integration of digital biomarkers into digital twin models of glioblastoma.

Looking ahead, my career aspirations are independent group leadership, accelerating clinical interventions through the analysis of wearable data in oncology.