My research focus over the past 10 years has been on mammalian developmental biology and stem cell research.

  - Mary Gray PhD Fellow 2012 to St John's College, Cambridge.

 - PhD work at the University of Cambridge investigated novel mechanisms involved in early cell fate decisions during mouse development. Published in Development and Cell.

- Developed a new joint genome and transcriptome sequencing protocol that was published in Nature Methods.

 - 2017 - Moved to University of Oxford as a Wellcome funded Postdoc.

 - Elected as a Junior Research Fellow to Wolfson College, Oxford

 - Work from this period was published in Nature Communications.

 - Invited reviewer for numerous journals including Development, The International Journal of Developmental Biology and Biology Open

 - Invited Speaker to the Oxford Developmental Biology Symposium 2019

 - 2020 – Started my own research lab at UCT – The African Stem Cell Initiative

 - Focus on building a stem-cell based models of human development to study disease pathology. Specifically, our lab focuses on developing models of the human brain and embryo in culture.

- Senior author papers published in in Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Reviews and Reports

-   My peer-reviewed research articles have been cited 984 times

 - 2022 Mail and Guardian 200 Young South Africans – Health

 - 2022 Elected as a Fellow of the South African Young Academy of Science

 - NSTF-South32 TW Kambule-NSTF Award: Emerging Researcher Nominee 2020/2021.