Serena is an NIHR Research Professor in Genomic Medicine and Bioinformatics at University of Cambridge. She is also an NHS Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics. Serena has pioneering expertise in cancer whole genome sequencing and big data analytics, with a particular interest in using the totality of cancer multi-omic data to fully understand cancer biology. She was central to the development of the field of mutational signatures in cancer, uses experimental systems to validate her analytical work, and also explores other age-related progressive diseases such as neurodegeneration. Serena uses machine-learning methods to develop clinical computational tools to accelerate the translation of genomic innovations towards patients. She is the recipient of the Royal Society Sir Francis Crick Medal, Foulkes Foundation Medal and Dr Josef Steiner Cancer Research award in recent years.
