Sandhya completed her BSc in Biomedical Sciences from Queen Mary University (London) and MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where she carried out a research project on lung cancer metabolism at the MRC Cancer Unit.

She then worked as a Scientific Officer in the Gene Function team at the ICR in London, where she employed high throughput CRIPSR and drug screening methods to identify therapeutic targets in breast cancer.

Sandhya’s CRUK-funded PhD project joint between the Schumann and Malanchi labs will use chemical precision tools to probe O-linked protein glycosylation in metastatic breast cancer, and investigate the impact of the tumour microenvironment on the glycoproteome.