Susan Kilgas, PhD

CSO, CO-FOUNDER

Susan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard 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. Susan has been awarded the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Trustee Committee Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to pursue independent research which will allow her to establish her own lab.

She is passionate about early detection and prevention of cancer, which led to her role as a co-founder of GambitBio.