Susan Kilgas, PhD

Scientific Consultant, CO-FOUNDER

Susan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Havard Medical School) at the Department of Radiation Oncology. Her main research interests lie in understanding how cells repair damaged DNA, and how failures in this process lead to cancer. She completed her Bachelor in Biomedical Science at Imperial College London, and moved onto the University of Oxford for her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Oncology, where she studied the interplay between the DNA damage repair and the ubiquitin-proteasome system.

Her current research focus is in the DNA repair field, but with a new focus on RNA biology and the function of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in the maintenance of genomic stability. She is passionate about early detection and prevention of cancer, which led to her role as a co-founder of GambitBio.