Sophie Acton

MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London

Dr Sophie Acton is a career development fellow currently funded by Cancer Research UK and the European Research Council. She graduated from the University of Bath in 2004, and received her PhD from UCL in 2008, studying mechanisms of tumour cell metastasis. Dr Acton spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA and the Francis Crick Institute, London, working on immune cell trafficking and remodelling of lymphoid tissues. She started her group at the MRC laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology in 2016 working on the cell biology and tissue biology controlling immune responses within lymphoid tissue and tumour microenvironments.