Gracie joined the lab in November 2022 as an MPhil student focusing on the effect of MHC-I polymorphisms on their interaction with recombinant TAPBPR constructs. After completing her degree, she stayed on in the lab as a research assistant.

Before joining, Gracie completed a BA in Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Oxford. Under the supervision of Katherine Vallis, she completed her honours dissertation project investigating the induction of immunogenic cell death in prostate cancer cells treated with external beam radiotherapy and the novel radiotherapeutic [177Lu]-PSMA.