For more detail, you can view my CV. In sum:
Side projects
I am currently working on:
- Training for a half-marathon (next: Cambridge Mar24; previously: Cambridge Mar23, London Apr23)
- Building my collection of my own pottery (at The Kiln, Cambridge)
- Exploring my healthtech venture thesis as a Polaris Fellow at Entrepreneur First
- Managing an international Estate that my sister & I have inherited
- And planning my 2024 travels…
2023 featured: all corners of the UK, Romania, Japan, Valencia, Ireland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia (on behalf of the British Embassy - more to come on this project!).
Research Projects
I have over 15 months of research experience, from tumour immunology and virology, to bioinformatics and synthetic biology.
- 2019-2020: Masters’ thesis research on tuumour development and immunotherapeutic targets with Professor Gerard Evan, now at the Crick Institute in London
- IL-33 immune signalling is necessary for lung tumour regression following oncogene deactivation
- 2019: Summer research on tumour development and immunology with Professor John Doorbar funded by Trinity College, Cambridge
- The role of HPV in dysregulation of epithelial homeostasis in early cervical cancer
- 2018-2019: Bachelors’ thesis research on neurodegernation with Professor Guy Brown
- P2Y6 receptor defiency is partially protective against synapse loss in aging mouse brains
- 2018: Summer research with Dr Andrew Firth funded by the Wellcome Trust
- A bioinformatic analysis and literature review of transcriptional regulatory elements across single stranded RNA viruses
- 2017: Summer research with Dr Philipp Holliger (Laboratory of Molecular Biology) funded by the Medical Research Council
- Directed evolution of a self-replicating RNA enzyme to investigate the RNA world hypothesis
- 2016: Summer research with Professor Stefan Marciniak (Cambridge Institute of Medical Research)
- Cross-talk between the Integrated Stress Response and BMP signalling across mice and Drosophila cell lines