Susan obtained her bachelor’s degree in Molecular Medicine from Trinity College Dublin, where she went on to complete a PhD scholarship investigating different strategies for treating lung cancer. Since then, Susan has carried out a Postdoctoral Fellowship, also in Trinity, which looked at the involvement of miRNA and cancer stem cells in radioresistant oesophageal cancer. She is now a research associate in the Whitaker Lab, where she is comparing different methods for sampling fresh tissue from radical prostatectomies, and investigating the role of a novel drug in prostate cancer. In her time off Susan is excited to be a tourist in London, and has many sights to tick off her list!