Translating great scientific discoveries into real therapies that can benefit patients requires scientists, entrepreneurs, policy makers and the public to work together. I'm passionate about finding new ways to move promising scientific discoveries from the lab bench to patients.

During my PhD, I volunteered at the Reach Out Lab, where I developed new programs to engage young scientists in STEM subjects. Together, we studied the chemical bonds in food, extracted DNA from fruit, and analysed the mechanical properties of sweets. Find out more here. 

Working with the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, we built a mini-golf course with holes themed around recent efforts to develop cancer therapies and diagnostics. As a course captain, I designed and built a course focused on new urinary biomarkers to engage with the local community, featuring a 3D toilet!

As part of the Royal Society Science in Parliament scheme, in 2017 I was selected to represent scientists in the UK and head to Parliament. There, I worked with members of the Department of Health to explore policy making opportunities, based on integrating scientific evidence into policy.

In 2017 I chaired a UK national conference, ATREUM focused on addressing barriers to research translation in the UK. We gathered early career researchers from across the UK to generate recommendations on academic translation. We published two policy response documents to provide metrics and shared our findings with the UK Government.