Nicholas Jackson
Department Of Pathology
University of Malaya
Malaysia
Biography
After general medical experience, he started specialist haematology training in Birmingham. He spent two and a half years doing fulltime research in the area of myeloma phenotyping and cell culture, leading to a London MD degree. After this he completed his higher specialist haematology training at the Royal Free Hospital in London. From 1991-1997 he was a lecturer and then associate professor at University Sains Malaysia in Kelantan. During that time he helped to develop the MMed(Pathology/Haematology) programme and to supervise the first two batches of students through to graduation. His research interests at that time included studies into the retinal manifestations of acute leukaemia. He returned to UK in 1997, eventually settling to work at the University Hospital Coventry, linked to Warwick Medical School. For the last ten years he was the director of the clinical and laboratory haemoglobinopathy service, and the clinical lead for blood transfusion for Coventry and Warwickshire. In July 2015, he returned to work in Malaysia, as a visiting professor in Pathology at University Malaya, but he also do two clinical sessions per week and and help look after the cohort of adult thalassaemia patients at UMMC.
Research Interest
Haematology (Clinical & Laboratory Haematology, Blood Transfusion, Haemoglobinopathy)
Publications
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Tummala H, Kirwan M, Walne AJ, Hossain U, Jackson N, Pondarre C, Plagnol V, Vulliamy T, Dokal I (2014). ERCC6L2 mutations link a distinct bone marrow failure syndrome to DNA repair and mitochondrial function. American Journal of Human Genetics 94;246-256.
