Dr Rachael Panizzo

Dr Rachael Panizzo was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. She is a Research Funding Manager in the Strategy and Research Team at Cancer Research UK, and previously worked as a Senior Policy Executive at the British Medical Association. She also writes for publications including openDemocracy, and she participated in the Intelligence Squared debate 'Feminism Has Nothing to Fear from Darwinism'. Previously, she studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Anatomy and Neuroscience. She went on to obtain her PhD at University College London, where she developed magnetic resonance imaging techniques for stem cells. She was also formerly a Biomedical Sciences Editor at the journal Opticon1826, and she interned in Science Policy at the Institute of Biology (now subsumed into the Royal Society of Biology).