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Early Cancer Institute

 
  • Research Group Leader, Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge

 

Biography

Danielle received her MPhys degree in Physics from the University of St Andrews, and her PhD in Medical Physics at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria in the field of high-resolution Optical Coherence Tomography.

In 2020, she joined the lab of Benjamin J. Vakoc at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School) as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2020-2023), and later Instructor (2023-2024), where she worked on both laser and system development for a range of clinical applications including cartilage disruption detection, retinal imaging, and neurosurgical guidance.

Research

Danielle is working on tailoring her optical imaging techniques to be suitable for cancer cell detection, with an ultimate goal of real-time intraoperative tumour margin assessment.

Publications