Susan Kilgas, PhD

CSO, CO-FOUNDER

Susan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical
School at the Department of Radiation Oncology. Her main research interests lie in
understanding how cells repair damaged DNA, and how failures in this process lead to
cancer. She completed her Bachelor in Biomedical Science at Imperial College London, and
moved onto the University of Oxford for her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Oncology, where
she studied the interplay between the DNA damage repair and the ubiquitin-proteasome
system.

Her current research focus is in the DNA repair field, but with a new focus on RNA
biology and the function of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in the maintenance of genomic
stability. Susan has been awarded the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Trustee
Committee Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to pursue independent research which will
allow her to establish her own lab.

She is passionate about early detection and prevention
of cancer, which led to her role as a co-founder of GambitBio.