User:Huxtable IP/Lynn Asante- Asare

Lynn Asante-Asare was a PhD student at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Lynn chose to pursue a degree in cancer research after a close friend died of leukemia several years ago. She completed a Bachelor's degree in biomedical science at the University of Warwick and then moved to Cambridge to pursue a PhD in cancer biology. Her project made use of bioorthogonal chemistry to detect differential sialyation and N-acetylgalactosamine glycosylation of proteins from a range of human cell lines representing different stages of cancer progression, with the goal of identifying differential glycosylation as markers for monitoring prostate and breast cancer progression.

Lynn participated in the ‘Sponsor a PhD researcher’ scheme.