Professor Oakey is the Dean for Doctoral Studies in the King's Doctoral College and is part of the Research & Innovation Academic Leadership Team.

D.Phil.: Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford

Post-doctoral training: Duke University Medical Centre, NC, USA, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, PA, USA, Fox Chase Cancer Centre, PA, USA

Faculty positions: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader & Professor, King's College London.

Rebecca leads the Epigenetics Laboratory in the Department of Medical & Molecular Genetics. 

The Oakey laboratory is a multi-disciplinary group at King’s College London working on epigenetic mechanisms, function, and roles during developmental processes. Our work primarily focuses on the epigenetic mark, DNA methylation, a stable mark which regulates gene expression in multiple contexts. We’re investigating this at a mechanistic level by using molecular biology approaches at model loci to decipher the rules of gene regulation. We use computational approaches to leverage ‘omics data to complement our empirical research. Investigation of gene regulation is also applied in clinically relevant contexts ranging from foetal growth defects, neuro-endocrine tumours and endocardial cell development collaborating with colleagues within KCL & GSTT and globally.

Rebecca is passionate about open source training opportunities in digital health for everyone, including early career researchers and the health care work force. Rebecca has championed the development and collation of free self-directed learning resources and is the Lead for the King's Innovation Scholars Program; 'Enabling the big data revolution through skills training -  check out our website. She is the Training Lead for the KHP Digital Health Hub - check out our Digital Health Academy website - and supports the learning resources for researchers in digital health for the PharosAI program.

Teaching

Rebecca Oakey is a teacher on the following courses:

• Bioinformatics (Research)
• Genes, Environment & Development in Psychology & Psychiatry
• MBBS1 Genomics