Professor Irene Roberts

Paediatric haematologist

Center:: University of Oxford
Adress:: Department of Haematology, Churchill Hospital, Old Rd, Headington OX3 7LE, UK OX3 7LE Oxford • United Kingdom

Longstanding clinical and laboratory research interests in developmental haematopoiesis, neonatal haematological disorders and inherited red cell disorders in children.

Scientific publications

Makarona K, Caputo VS, Costa JR, Liu B, O'Connor D, Iskander D, Roper D, Robertson L, Bhatnagar N, Terpos E, Georgiou E, Papaioannou M, Layton DM, Luzzatto L, Roberts I, Karadimitris A. Transcriptional and epigenetic basis for restoration of G6PD enzymati
Vannocci T, Kurata H, de la Fuente J, Roberts I, Porter AC. Nuclease-stimulated homologous recombination at the human beta-globin gene. J Gene Med 2014 Jan-Feb;16(1-2):1-10. doi: 10.1002/jgm.2758. PMID: 24590875.
Maroz A, Reinhardt K, Hitzler J, Roberts I, Hennig C, Reinhardt D, Klusmann JH. GATA1s induces hyperproliferation of eosinophil precursors in Down syndrome transient leukemia. Leukemia 2014 Jun;28(6):1259-70. doi: 10.1038/leu.2013.373. Epub 2013 Dec 13. P
Roberts I, Alford K, Hall G, Juban G, Richmond H, Norton A, Vallance G, Marchi E, McGowan S, Roy A, Cowan G, Anthony M, Gupta A, Ho J, Uthaya S, Curley A, Rasiah VS, Watts T, Nicholl R, Bedford-Russell A, Blumberg R, Thomas A, Gibson B, Halsey C, Lee PW,
Gerrard G, Volganon M, Foong HE, Kasperaviciute D, Iskander D, Game L, Muller M, Aitman TJ, Roberts I, de la Fuente J, Foroni L, Karadimitris A. Target enrichment and high-throughput sequencing of 80 ribosomal protein genes to identify mutations associate

Co-funded by the Health Programme of the European Union.