Biography:

Dr Maria Braoudaki is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Genetics at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. After graduating in 2004 with a PhD in Molecular Microbiology at Aston University, she worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece, and at the same time continued her postgraduate studies in Medicine. Dr Braoudaki’s expertise lies in microRNA cancer biomarkers. Dr Braoudaki has published work in more than 40 high-impact peer-reviewed journals. In 2016, she was awarded the prestigious L’OREAL-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for her work on pediatric cancer.