Simon Manuel Tria received a Bachelor of Biomedical Science in 2021 before continuing to do a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Griffith University in 2022. During his undergraduate studies and Honours year, he conducted several bouts of cancer research in both breast cancer and colorectal cancer background. Simon is now working as a Research assistant in QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Insitute in the Conjoint Gastroenterology Laboratory under Vicki Whitehall. His research interests include the molecular biology of cancer formation and progression with a specific interest in colorectal cancers.