- Noble, R., Burley, J.T., Le Sueur, C. and Hochberg, M.E. (2020). When, why and how tumour clonal diversity predicts survival. Evolutionary Applications, 13(7), pp. 1558–1568. doi:10.1111/eva.13057.
- Dujon, A.M., Aktipis, A., Alix-Panabières, C., Amend, S.R., Boddy, A.M., Brown, J.S. … Ujvari, B. (2020). Identifying key questions in the ecology and evolution of cancer. Evolutionary Applications. doi:10.1111/eva.13190.
- Bacevic, K., Noble, R., Soffar, A., Wael Ammar, O., Boszonyik, B., Prieto, S. … Fisher, D. (2017). Spatial competition constrains resistance to targeted cancer therapy. Nature Communications, 8(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01516-1.
- Hochberg, M.E. and Noble, R.J. (2017). A framework for how environment contributes to cancer risk. Ecology Letters, 20(2), pp. 117–134. doi:10.1111/ele.12726.
- Vasse, M., Noble, R.J., Akhmetzhanov, A.R., Torres-Barceló, C., Gurney, J., Benateau, S. … Hochberg, M.E. (2017). Antibiotic stress selects against cooperation in the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(3), pp. 546–551. doi:10.1073/pnas.1612522114.
- Noble, R., Kaltz, O., Nunney, L. and Hochberg, M.E. (2016). Overestimating the role of environment in cancers. Cancer Prevention Research, 9(10), pp. 773–776. doi:10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-16-0126.
- Noble, R., Kaltz, O. and Hochberg, M.E. (2015). Peto’s paradox and human cancers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370(1673). doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0104.
- Noble, R., Christodoulou, Z., Kyes, S., Pinches, R., Newbold, C.I. and Recker, M. (2013). The antigenic switching network of Plasmodium falciparum and its implications for the immuno-epidemiology of malaria. eLife, 2013(2). doi:10.7554/eLife.01074.
- Noble, R. and Recker, M. (2012). A statistically rigorous method for determining antigenic switching networks. PLoS ONE, 7(6). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039335.
- Fastman, Y., Noble, R., Recker, M. and Dzikowski, R. (2012). Erasing the epigenetic memory and beginning to switch-the onset of antigenic switching of var genes in plasmodium falciparum. PLoS ONE, 7(3). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034168.
- Noble, R., Kaltz, O. and Hochberg, M.E. Statistical interpretations and new findings on Variation in Cancer Risk
Among Tissues. . - Hochberg, M.E., Noble, R.J. and Braude, S. A Hypothesis to Explain Cancers in Confined Colonies of Naked Mole Rats. . doi:10.1101/079012.
- Viossat, Y. and Noble, R. A theoretical analysis of tumour containment. Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Contact details
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About
Overview
Dr Robert Noble uses mathematical and computational models to investigate the evolution and ecology of cancer, in collaboration with experimental biologists and clinicians.
Dr Noble obtained a DPhil in Zoology from the University of Oxford in 2014, with a thesis on mathematical modelling of infectious disease. He then held postdoctoral research positions in mathematical oncology at the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (2014-2017), ETH Zurich (2017-2020), and the University of Zurich (2018-2020). He joined City as a lecturer in July 2020.
Qualifications
- DPhil, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Oct 2009 – Jan 2014
- MMath, University of York, United Kingdom, Oct 1999 – Jul 2003
Employment
- Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, City, University London, Jul 2020 – present
- Postdoctoral researcher, University of Zurich, May 2018 – Jun 2020
- Postdoctoral researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Feb 2017 – Jun 2020
- Postdoctoral researcher, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier, Jan 2014 – Jan 2017
Research
Research students
Veselin Manojlovic
Attendance: Sep 2020 – Sep 2023, full-time
Thesis title: The evolution of cancer risk and progression
Role: 1st Supervisor