Vicky Forster

Vicky Forster
Alma mater

Newcastle University

Durham University
Known for Paediatric cancer
Scientific career
Institutions The Hospital for Sick Children
Thesis AML1/ETO promotes a mutator phenotype in t(8;21) acute myeloid leukaemia (2012)

Victoria Jane (Vicky) Forster is a postdoctoral researcher at The Hospital for Sick Children.

Education

Forster grew up in Chelmsford, Essex. She was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia aged 7.[1] She became interested in scientific research whilst at hospital, and went on to study biomedical science at the Durham University.[1][2] She graduated from Durham University in 2008.[3] Forster completed a PhD at Newcastle University with James Allan and Olaf Heidenreich.[1][4] On the day she finished her PhD, she tweeted ‘Dear Cancer, I beat you aged eight and now I’ve got a PhD in cancer research’,, and it went viral.[5][6]

Career

Forster used the media attention to praise where she worked, the Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle upon Tyne.[5] Here she concentrated on leukemia caused by mutations in DNA.[5] Today Forster is a postdoctoral researcher at The Hospital for Sick Children.[7] Her research focusses on the rare genetic disorder biallelic mismatch repair deficiency.[7]

In 2014 Forster was a British Science Association Media Fellow.[8] That year, she spoke at TED x Jesmond Dene about the legacy of Janet Rowley.[9] She appeared in the science communication project Soapbox Science.[10] Forster was a 2017 TED Global Fellow researching paediatric cancer.[11] Her TED talk, What can cancer survivors teach us about cancer treatment, was in Arusha, Tanzania.[12] She was listed in the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30.[13] She has written for The Times, The Conversation, Forbes Health and The Guardian.[14][15][16][17] She is a member of the Society of The International Society of Paediatric Oncology.[18]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Thunder, Jamie (2012-06-30). "Woman fights cancer as a patient - and then as a scientist". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  2. ↑ ""Dear Cancer, I beat you aged eight and today I got my PhD in cancer research"". Cancer Research UK - Science blog. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  3. ↑ "Victoria Forster". The Conversation. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  4. ↑ Jane, Forster, Victoria (2012). "AML1/ETO promotes a mutator phenotype in t(8;21) acute myeloid leukaemia".
  5. 1 2 3 "Dear Cancer - Dr Vicky Forster's story". futurefund.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  6. ↑ "Ex-patient heads cancer cure bid". BBC News. 2012-07-06. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  7. 1 2 Children, The Hospital for Sick. "Profile of Victoria Forster". www.sickkids.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  8. ↑ "Victoria Froster – Our_Futures". ourfutures.co. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  9. ↑ TEDx Talks (2014-07-23), Dissecting DNA to cure cancers - the legacy of Dr. Janet Rowley | Victoria Forster | TEDxJesmondDene, retrieved 2018-03-27
  10. ↑ Soapbox Science (2015-06-29), Dr Vicky Forster on being a Soapbox Scientist, retrieved 2018-03-27
  11. ↑ "Get to know the extraordinary new class of TED Fellows". TED Fellows. 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  12. ↑ TED Archive (2018-02-27), What can cancer survivors teach us about cancer treatment? | Victoria Forster, retrieved 2018-03-26
  13. ↑ "Victoria Forster". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  14. ↑ Forster, Victoria. "Victoria Forster". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  15. ↑ Forster, Vicky (2014-08-30). "Childhood cancer survivors face risk of early death". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  16. ↑ "Victoria Forster". The Conversation. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  17. ↑ Forster, Victoria (2016-07-04). "Why Brexit is bad news for cancer research". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  18. ↑ "Who is behind the Blog?". The International Society of Paediatric Oncology. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
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