Alba Rodriguez-Meira

Alba Rodriguez-Meira is a molecular biologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, where she tries to understand how certain genetic errors give rise to leukaemia, an aggressive type of blood cancer. She is also currently using her sequencing expertise to address COVID19-related challenges. She completed her BSc in Biotechnology at the University of Salamanca (Spain) in 2014, developing a strong interest in biomedical research. She then moved to Imperial College London (UK) to study an MRes in Cancer Biology and in 2015, she was awarded a Cancer Research UK scholarship to undertake her PhD at the University of Oxford. She is an active member of SRUK/CERU, where she is part of the Cancer Committee and organizer of the 8 th SRUK Symposium.