Jacqueline is a PhD student at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge. Before starting her doctoral studies, she worked as a bioinformatician for a year in Dr. David Adams' Experimental Cancer Genetics group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Jacqueline obtained a BSc degree in Molecular Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP) and carried out undergraduate-level research in the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Stem Cells of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of USP, under the supervision of Dr. Marilene H. Lopes.
Dr. Gitanjali Yadav is a Trustee of St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. She is also the first DBT-Cambridge Lectureship awardee, a joint program between Cambridge Old Schools and the NIPGR, Govt of India. She has a diverse educational background, with a Ph.D. in Microbial Immunology (from the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi India), a Master's degree in Biomedical Research and graduate degree with Honors in Botany, from the University of Delhi.