I studied for a PhD in developmental biology at the Univeristy of Edinburgh in the MRC Reproductive Biology Unit. After completing my PhD I moved to Leeds and worked as a PDRA in Prof Margaret Knowles's lab studying the function of growth factor receptors in bladder cancer. In 2010 I set up two facilities in Leeds - a siRNA screening facility and a facility to produce non-antibody binding proteins. In 2015 I became a University Academic Fellow at Leeds to build a research group to fully exploit the use of Affimers for studying protein function. In 2018 I was promoted to Associate Professor.