Profile

I’m from London and have Bangladeshi heritage. I grew up attending a state school and really enjoyed debating and public speaking. I love learning about new things and getting involved with just about everything and anything!

I studied Physics at Queen Mary, University of London, where my final year project consisted of designing a user interface for the creation of a medical diagnostic device used to detect peripheral neuropathy.  I am the first Racial Diversity and Equality Officer at Reuben College and am responsible for celebrating the range of cultures and backgrounds Reuben represents. I currently did this with a Diversity Formal!

Outside of Academia, I have over three hundred hours of experience in outreach where I support students from less advantaged backgrounds to pursue higher education.

I will be exploring the use of radionuclide therapy in combination with radiosensitising drugs for the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer. Radiosensitisers are drugs which will help radiation work better and metastases is when a cancer has spread throughout the body. My project aims to identify the reasoning for the lack of co-operativity of high potency drugs by performing assays to identify if the cause is due to differences between apoptosis and senescence. Co-operativity explains how well drugs work together, apoptosis and senescence are cell response mechanisms. This research will determine if these differences are desirable in radionuclide combination therapy.

My typical day changes everyday. Sometimes I’ll be going into the lab and shadowing my supervisor. Other times I can be analysing data or I can be at the library performing some research!