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I obtained a MSci in Biochemistry (with Immunology) from University of Aberdeen with a year in industry at GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, UK. As part of an Aberdeen university team, I participated in the international Genetically Engineered Machine Competition at MIT, USA, where scientists across the world present innovative projects to address worldwide problems through synthetic biology. Our project aimed to develop an E. coli-based system to detect infections with the Trypanosoma parasite for people living in underprivileged rural places in Africa.

I completed my undergraduate studies in Life Sciences in the Netherlands, where I was lucky enough to work as an intern in both the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam and Utrecht University Medical Centre. I obtained various experiences in cell and molecular biology and discovered my interest in stem cells while working in Utrecht on the stem cell marker Lgr5.

I completed a Bachelor’s degree in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology with a focus on neuroscience at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA). I then spent two years working as a research assistant and a teaching fellow at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

While obtaining my Honours degree in Molecular Genetics at the University of Edinburgh, I spent half a year in Uppsala University in an ERASMUS exchange programme, and a year in industry working at Eli Lilly. I spent most of my summers doing internships in labs in Edinburgh, as well as in ETH (Zurich) as part of a research programme organized by Amgen.

I have a BSc in ‘Biomedical Engineering’ and a MSc. in ‘Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine’ from the University of Applied Sciences Technikum in Vienna, Austria.

As part of my undergraduate Biochemistry degree at Imperial College London, I conducted a year’s industrial placement investigating aspects of Alzheimer’s disease. This ended up being the best year of my degree and confirmed that I wanted to pursue a career in research.

I completed my Master’s degree in regenerative medicine at UCL and afterwards gained experience in corneal tissue engineering using 3D bioprinting at Newcastle University. Following this, I worked as a research assistant at the Sanger Institute where I helped to establish a pipeline for genetic knockout studies on induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived hepatocytes.

I completed my undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London. During my time there I became interested in how mechanical forces affect tissues in the body. In my third-year project I looked at the effect of mechanical forces on wound repair. For my master’s project I studied the effects of mechanical forces on endothelial cells and how this relates to the activation of the Wnt signalling pathway.

I completed my bachelor’s degree in biology at Bowdoin College in Maine, USA, and after graduating I worked as a Research Assistant in the Melton Lab at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Massachusetts, USA. While working there, I studied part-time to receive a Master of Liberal Arts degree in Biotechnology Management from the Harvard Extension School.

I completed a bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge and a master’s degree in biotechnology at Imperial College London. I then worked for two years at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg, Sweden.

I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences and MPhil in Structural Biology at the University of Hong Kong. I completed an MSc in Health Data Science at University College London.

For my bachelor’s degree, I completed the course of Biomedical Sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo. In the third year of this course, I was awarded a scholarship from the Brazilian government to complete an exchange year at the University of Sheffield. When returning, I completed my bachelor thesis with Prof Patricia Beltrão Braga, in which I developed a 3D model of the developing brain using iPSC-derived neural progenitor cells. To carry on with my interest in neuroscience, I was thrilled to receive the Goethe Goes Global scholarship to complete a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. My master thesis with Dr Julia Ladewig involved optimising protocols to derive forebrain organoids from iPSCs.

I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London. Whilst there, I did my final year dissertation at William Harvey Research Institute on exploring the process of ubiquitination on the NF-κB activation downstream of TLR7 signalling. I joined an MRes in Cancer Biology at Imperial College London to acquire more diverse laboratory skills. For my first master rotation at the Francis Crick Institute, I had the opportunity to work with CyTOF and imaging mass cytometry to investigate the immune profile of Kras driven lung tumours from mice. Along with the design of an antibody panel and the optimisation of the protocol, I learned the use of current softwares and developed image analysis pipelines.

I obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the Technical University Braunschweig (Germany), where alongside my studies I worked as a student research assistant at the Department of Cellular Neurobiology. During this degree, both my thesis project in Prof Martin Korte’s lab and an extracurricular project in Prof Tim Karl’s lab at Western Sydney University focussed on behavioural neuroscience. I then went on to complete a Master’s degree in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands) with a 10-month placement in Prof Vincenzo De Paola’s group at Imperial College London. Here, I had the chance to gain insight into modelling human neuron development in vivo using a xenotransplantation approach. Before starting the ATRM PhD program, I joined the Cells for Sight team led by Prof Julie Daniels at University College London as a research assistant manufacturing artificial ocular surface tissue under GMP conditions.

I obtained my BSc in Biochemistry with Professional Experience at The University of Manchester. During my studies, I completed a placement year at the University of California San Francisco at Guo Huang's laboratory to study the regenerative potential of the heart. During this time, I became fascinated by the striking regenerative potential displayed across the animal kingdom and how some of these mechanisms of regeneration are reiterated across ontogeny and phylogeny. For my final year project in Manchester, I joined Karl Kadler's laboratory to explore the circadian regulation of collagen fibrils in response to immune cells in the heart and lungs. Upon completing my undergraduate studies, I wished to pursue a career in academia dedicated to regeneration in a translational field.

I completed my bachelor’s degree in biotechnology engineering with a minor in molecular biology at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. During my degree, I undertook a year internship in Dr. Dario Lemos Lab at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Here, I developed kidney organoids from patient-derived stem cells to model tuberous sclerosis complex, a rare degenerative disease.

I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences at the university of Pavia, Italy. During my thesis I focused on hydrocarbon degrading fungi with the aim of understanding how to exploit these microorganisms for the purpose of bioremediation of hydrocarbons derivatives from solid materials.

After considering a career in environmental biology, I decided to pursue my interest for human health, and I enrolled in the Molecular Biology and Genetics master’s degree in the same atheneum. In parallel, I also studied at the Biomedical Sciences class at the University School of Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS)….

I read Molecular Genetics at King’s College London at an undergraduate level followed by MRes degree in Biomedical Research specialising in Molecular Basis of Human Disease from Imperial College London. During my postgraduate course I explored the role of microRNAs in regulating pancreatic β-cell functions and contributed towards the generation of a model system for studying the impact of epigenetic changes on serotonin system in vitro.

I then joined Pan3DP Consortium as a research assistant. My primary role was to perform detailed structural characterisation of developing murine pancreas, as well as bioprinted pancreatic organoids using 3D lightsheet microscopy.