I am Professor of Breast Biology and Director of the Manchester Breast Centre, based at the Oglesby Cancer Research Building. My undergraduate BSc studies were in Biology at the University of Sussex and the Université de Grenoble. Following two and half years as a Research Assistant with Chris Potten at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, I studied the control of proliferation in the normal and neoplastic human mammary gland for my PhD at The University of Manchester (1995). Subsequently, my post-doctoral training was with Dr Liz Anderson in the Clinical Research Department of The Christie, Manchester, and in 2001, I returned to The University of Manchester as a Group Leader in the Division of Cancer Sciences. I was Lecturer and Cancer Research UK Research Fellow from 2001-2006, a Senior Lecturer and Breast Cancer Now Research Fellow from 2006-2011 and a Reader in Breast Biology from 2014.