Nicola Royle

Nicola Royle
NationalityBritish
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Manchester
Alma materUniversity of Reading
Academic work
DisciplineGenetics
InstitutionsUniversity of Leicester
Main interestsTelomeres

Nicola Jane Royle is a British geneticist who heads the Telomere Research Group in the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester.[1] She is a specialist in the cellular processes that affect the stability of telomeres, the essential DNA-protein structures that cap the ends of chromosomes and play significant roles in cancer and ageing.

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