Irene Newsham

Irene Newsham, PhD MB(ASCP)cm FACSc, joined Norwich in 2022 as a Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, teaching the Introduction to Forensics, Biochemistry and General Chemistry courses. She received her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Vermont and her PhD in Applied Biological Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. Following post-doctoral training at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Montreal, Canada, Dr. Newsham spent over 20 years as an NIH-Funded faculty member at several Universities including University of California-San Diego, Virginia Commonwealth University and UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, where her research on cancer genetics and the application of technologies for oncogenomic analysis has resulted in over 55 publications. Dr. Newsham was also the Associate Program Director for the Molecular Genetic Technology program in the School of Health Professions at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center where she developed curriculum and taught molecular diagnostics and forensics to undergraduates interested in clinical molecular diagnostics as a profession. In 2019, Dr. Newsham earned her Certificate in Genealogy Research from Boston University’s Center for Professional Education and is currently developing Molecular Forensics and Advanced Molecular Forensics courses for both STEM majors and criminal justice/criminology majors that integrate molecular genetics and genetic genealogy practices.

PhD Applied Biological Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BS Biochemistry, University of Vermont

CH100 Intro to Forensics
CH324/325 Biochemistry
CH103 General Chemistry

1. Whole-Genome Sequencing for Optimized Patient Management
Matthew N. Bainbridge, Wojciech Wiszniewski, David R. Murdock, Jennifer Friedman, Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui, Irene Newsham, Jeffrey G. Reid, John K. Fink, Margaret B. Morgan, Marie-Claude Gingras, Donna M. Muzny, Linh D. Hoang, Shahed Yousaf, James R. Lupski, Richard A. Gibbs
Sci Transl Med. 2011 Jun 15; 3(87): 87re3. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3002243
PMCID: PMC3314311
2. The tumor suppressor DAL-1/4.1B and protein methylation cooperate in inducing apoptosis in MCF-7 breast cancer cells
Wei Jiang, Irene F Newsham
Mol Cancer. 2006; 5: 4. Published online 2006 Jan 18. doi: 10.1186/1476-4598-5-4
PMCID: PMC1382251
3. PRUNE2 is a human prostate cancer suppressor regulated by the intronic long noncoding RNA PCA3.
Ahmad Salameh, Alessandro K. Lee, Marina Cardó-Vila, Diana N. Nunes, Eleni Efstathiou, Fernanda I. Staquicini, Andrey S. Dobroff, Serena Marchiò, Nora M. Navone, Hitomi Hosoya, Richard C. Lauer, Sijin Wen, Carolina C. Salmeron, Anh Hoang, Irene Newsham, Leandro A. Lima, Dirce M. Carraro, Salvatore Oliviero, Mikhail G. Kolonin, Richard L. Sidman, Kim-Anh Do, Patricia Troncoso, Christopher J. Logothetis, Ricardo R. Brentani, George A. Calin, Webster K. Cavenee, Emmanuel Dias-Neto, Renata Pasqualini, Wadih Arap
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Jul 7; 112(27): 8403–8408. Published online 2015 Jun 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1507882112