Melinda Van Kerckvoorde

Melinda Van Kerckvoorde is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She is an Associate Consultant at Scendea, supporting clients in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry with regulatory submissions to European and US agencies. Melinda completed her BSc in Biomedicine at Lancaster University and used computational models to understand embryo size regulation during her MPhil in Developmental Biology at the University of Cambridge. She then joined Dr Marta Shahbazi's lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology as an intern to study aneuploidy in human embryos. Now, she is looking for a new challenge to spin out more fertility research from labs into the real world and encourage reproductive health awareness.