Vicky Forster

Forster used the media attention to praise where she worked, the Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle upon Tyne.^[7] Here she concentrated on leukemia caused by mutations in DNA.^[7]

In 2014 Forster was a British Science Association Media Fellow.^[9][10] That year, she spoke at TEDx Jesmond Dene about the legacy of Janet Rowley.^[11] In 2015 she won the Communications and Brand Ambassador Prize from Cancer Research UK.^[12] She appeared in the science communication project Soapbox Science.^[13] Forster was a 2017 TED Global Fellow researching paediatric cancer.^[14][15] Her TED talk, What can cancer survivors teach us about cancer treatment, was in Arusha, Tanzania.^[16] She was listed in the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30^[17] and was part of the BBC's 100 Women science week.^[18] She has written for The Times, The Conversation, Forbes Health and The Guardian.^{[19][20][21][22]} She is a member of the Society of The International Society of Paediatric Oncology.^[23]

She completed her post-doc at The Hospital for Sick Children. Her research focussed on the rare genetic disorder biallelic mismatch repair deficiency.^[24] She now works at Women's College Hospital, Toronto.^[25]

• TED Fellow Dr Vicky Forster