I am a senior bioinformatician leading the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre’s Next Generation Phenotyping and Diagnostics team under David’s supervision. My current research focuses on integrating multiomic and spatial data sets with the aim of improving our understanding of complex diseases.

Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral research associate and bioinformatician in cancer genomics with David Wedge and Robert Bristow. My research focused on the relationship between tumour hypoxia and genomic instability in prostate cancer. I also worked on setting up and developing sequencing pipelines used by the Bristow and Wedge groups.

In 2021 I completed by DPhil as part of the 4 year Wellcome Trust funded Genomic Medicine and Statistics program, hosted by the University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division. I was jointly supervised by David Wedge, Cath Green, and Sergi Padilla-Parra. As part of my DPhil project I investigated the role of virus induced cell-cell fusion in cancer initiation and progression, using wet lab techniques, as well as analysing whole genome sequencing data.

Prior to starting my DPhil, I spent three summers working as a research assistant in the CNS department at deCode Genetics. In addition to this, I recieved a First Class BSc in Pharmacology from King’s College London, where I completed my final project in the lab of Lawrence Moon. Between my second and third years at King’s I was awarded a King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship, which gave me the opportunity to work on a project in the lab of Aamir Ahmed at the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, after which I was awarded a King’s Experience Research Award.