Louise graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1998 with a BSc Hons in Biological Sciences, then moved to the University of Cambridge to undertake her PhD with Professor Hill Gaston in the Department of Medicine. Her post-doctoral training was undertaken at the Cambridge Institute of Medical Research under the supervision of Professor John Trowsdale. Louise subsequently held a Wellcome Career Development Fellowship. In 2015, Louise moved to the Department of Pathology and was awarded a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship. She was appointed as a University Lecturer in 2017 then promoted to a University Reader in Molecular Immunology in 2019. In 2020, her Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship was successfully renewed. Louise has over 20 year experience studying MHC class I molecules and the antigen processing and presentation pathway. She is also a Fellow and Tutor at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge.