Susie is a biologist turned bioinformatician whose main interest is in facilitating the move of next-generation sequencing into the clinic to help cancer patients. She completed a PhD in cancer genomics at the University of Cambridge and worked for Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and in the biotech industry before moving to University of Glasgow. Susie now leads the Medical Genomics arm of the Glasgow Precision Oncology Laboratory, including overseeing the high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics teams. Her main research focus is the development of clinical-grade analysis pipelines to allow custom oncology sequencing assays to be used safely in clinical trials and clinical practice.