A Day in the Life: UCL ICH PhD Student (Cancer Research Edition)

I’m Farah Alam, a second year PhD student at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health in the Developmental Biology and Cancer Section.

My PhD is focused on investigating how radiotherapy can be used to improve efficacy of an experimental immunotherapy, known as CAR-T cells in solid cancers.

I’m mostly based at the ZCR building of ICH, and I’m an entirely wet lab student, so most of the day is spent on conducting experiments that involves a range of different laboratory techniques. I also balance the experimental work with meetings, journal clubs, and other aspects of admin work that involves a PhD.

Outside of my PhD, I tend to spend most of my time reading books and attempting to learn how to crotchet and knit (which is way harder than I thought it would be!).

Find out more about our PhD programme here - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health/st...

Video produced by Jasmin Rees, Farah Alam and Tahmina Aktar.