Profile

I grew up in Surrey with 3 sisters and 2 cats, and enjoyed visiting my grandmother in Denmark. I used to be fluent in Danish when I was small but I’ve forgotten most of it now.

After escaping to Cardiff University to do my undergraduate degree, I did a PhD at the University of Leicester and then moved to Cambridgeshire.

I’m quite competitive – I played badminton and was in the swimming team when I was younger, and now I use a leaderboard to keep track of the best board game players in my friend group!

I joined the Garnett group in late 2020 as an Advanced Research Assistant, where I derived novel organoids and supported research identifying and characterising genetic vulnerabilities of various cancers. I transitioned into my role as a Cellular Screening Specialist in earlier 2022, where I became much more involved in the high throughput drug screening of cell and organoid lines. Most recently I have been in charge of setting up a new project looking at molecular glues.

Before I came to Sanger I undertook a PhD at the University of Leicester investigating novel regulators of telomere length in human cells, and completed an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences at Cardiff University.

Wake up around 7 and get myself and my daughter ready for the day, and if I have time get a coffee! I drop my daughter to nursery and then drive to work, arriving at 8:30.

I am involved multiple projects and have lots of different responsibilities, so my day is never quite the same! I plan my own experiments, help other team members test drugs on our cancer cells, make sure everyone is working in a safe way, and help organise the labs we use. I work in a team of ~35 people, so it can sometimes be quite hectic!

My day usually ends at 16:30, so I drive home and meet up with my wife and daughter. We make dinner and spend time together until it’s time for bed.