Laura gained her Pharmacology BSc at Kings College London, which included a one year Industrial Placement in respiratory pharmacology at GlaxoSmithKline, and went on to complete her PhD in Translational Neuropharmacology at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), joint with Eli Lilly & Co in 2018. Laura is currently a Wellcome Trust Translational Research Facilitator at the University of Manchester, where she works to overcome institutional hurdles to conducting translational research, and form links between the University, NHS and pharmaceutical industry.