Prof Jacqueline James 

Jacqueline James is Professor of Pathology at Queen’s University, Belfast (QUB).

She is also a co-Director of the QUB Precision Medicine Centre of Excellence and a Consultant Pathologist in the Northern Ireland Regional Molecular Diagnostic Service.  

Jacqueline was instrumental in establishing the Northern Ireland Biobank (NIB) and has been NIB Director since 2010. NIB was initially a cancer focussed biobank however, over the last decade Jacqueline has led the expansion of NIB’s infrastructure beyond cancer to support other diseases and has championed the release of high quality biosamples linked with reliable clinical and pathological data sets, including digital images, to researchers worldwide.