Summary
Having done my MSci in Computational Biology at UCL (2017-2021) and my MRes in Translational Cancer Medicine (2021-2022) at King's College London, I developed an interest in data science and the ways in which this can be used to address questions pertaining to cancer biology and evolution. Through out those years I worked in projects relating to acute myeloid leukaemia, breast cancer, and sequencing-based methods and data.
In 2022 I joined Imperial College London as part of the MultiSci MRC DTP programme. In my first year in the programme I further explored my interests as part of the MRes in Biomedical Research (Data Science). During this time, I worked on projects focusing on the biological processes leading to relapse in ER breast cancer, exploring epigenomics and unsupervised learning approaches along with my supervisors Prof Luca Magnani and Dr Barbara Bravi. These MRes projects turned into my current PhD project supervised by the aforementioned principal investigators in addition to Dr Marina Evangelou. My project focuses on the testing and development of novel statistical methods for the mutli-omic integration of sequencing-based datasets in the context of ER breast cancer evolution, and it is done in collaboration with the Institute of Cancer Research.