Dr Jacqueline McGlade is a post-doctoral researcher in the Brain Tumour Research Program at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. She completed her PhD in Immunology studying the effects of ultraviolet light on asthmatic responses before changing fields in 2011 to work in paediatric brain tumour research. Dr McGlade was awarded the Elliot Parish Fellowship for Child Cancer Research in 2012 and is currently working with CHK1/2 inhibitors to evaluate their efficacy in models of paediatric medulloblastoma.