In July 2022 I will graduate from the The University of Aberdeen, with a Degree of Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Immunology at, Scotland. During the second year of my degree (2018) I had the opportunity to undertake an exchange semester at the University of Guelph, Canada which focused on biomedical sciences and genetics. The strong interest for oncology lead me to pursue a Degree of Master in Science in Immunology at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) in Milan, Italy, which I will leave inJune 2022. During the 2 years spent at IEO I carried out my main thesis project involving the use of CRISPR/Cas9 in HPV-positive head and neck cancer cells lines in order to silence E6 and E7 oncoviral proteins. I also completed a second thesis describing the initial stage of a study aimed at integrating transcriptomic profiles with genetic and molecular signatures to determine differences between responsive and non-responsive laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer patients.