Dr Meegan Howlett is a post-doctoral researcher in the Brain Tumour Research Program at the Telethon Kids Institute. She completed her PhD studies in 2009 through the University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), where she worked on STAT3 signaling in gastric cancer. After a short post-doctoral position in the same laboratory, travelling and voluntary work abroad, Meegan joined Prof’s Kees’ Leukaemia and Cancer Laboratory at the Telethon Kids Institute in 2011. Following a career break for the birth of her first daughter, Meegan took up her current position in 2016 working with Dr Raelene Endersby and Dr Nick Gottardo where her work focuses on identifying more effective treatments with minimal side effects for paediatric brain tumour patients.