About
Tom is a PhD student with a background in medicine. His experiences as a junior doctor gave him an awareness of the dire need for better treatment options for victims of brain cancer, and so he joined the Sid Faithfull Brain Cancer Laboratory in 2020. His research project is focused on a novel strategy to target the function of telomerase, an enzyme frequently upregulated in cancer which allows cells to divide indefinitely. Telomerase is upregulated in the majority of the high grade primary brain tumours, and therefore represents a promising target for the treatment of this terrible disease.