Ana Ferreira
Higher Scientific Officer: Integrative Cancer Epidemiology
Ana joined The Generations Study research team in 2024 with Professor Garcia-Closas. A biomedical scientist by training, Ana holds a MSc in Experimental Pathology and has worked at the ICR for nearly ten years. She transferred from the Cancer Biomarkers Team where she investigated biomarkers of metastatic prostate cancer for the development of novel cancer therapies. Ana is responsible for the management of biological specimens and digital pathology processes within the study by establishing workflows and quality control metrics for scanning, storing and analysing the tissue slides. These will be used to understand how risk factors are related to different types of breast cancer, and to identify tissue biomarkers for the prediction of malignant breast cancer.