Dr Orcheston-Findlay received her Masters in Physics with Honours from the University of Exeter, UK, in 2013. From 2014 to early 2020, she completed her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Canterbury between 2020 where she produced improved pre-clinical models of endometrial cancer using microfluidic microenvironment control. She then completed two postdoctoral positions at the University of Canterbury leading on from her PhD work. In 2020, Dr Orcheston-Findlay took on a postdoctoral Research Officer position at the Kids Research Institute, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, AU, where she is researching improved clinical models of high grade gliomas using stem cell-derived brain organoids and patient-derived 3D spheroids.