Hi, I'm Szen.

I currently live in Cambridge, UK. I'm working as a Clinical Research Associate (Postdoc) supervised by Dr. Mathew Garnett at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. I'm also supervised by Dr. Sam Behjati.

Key research areas of interest I'm actively involved in:

• Cancer biology & phenotypic plasticity. Cancer cellular plasticity and its relation to therapeutic adaptation to targeted inhibitors and drug combinations.
• Single-cell profiling technologies. Applying, scaling, and optimizing single-cell technologies and multiplexed assays to profile tumour organoids.
• Perturbation data analysis and modeling. Computational strategies to analyse scRNA-seq perturbation datasets.

Previously, I've worked on multiple projects including drug response modeling with unsupervised machine learning, developing mobile apps for cancer variant annotation, clinical research on small-cell lung cancer, long non-coding RNAs, and gene editing. More information about featured publications can be found in the page here.

On the side, I co-founded the MedTech Sheffield society and led it as President for 2 years. I led my team to twice organize the HackMed hackathon. If you're interested in my work, please reach out to me!