Cell scientist to watch – Susana Godinho

Susana Godinho graduated with a master's degree in biology from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She then pursued her PhD with Alvaro Tavares at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science, including a year at the University of Cambridge, UK, in the laboratory of David Glover. In 2006, she joined the laboratory of David Pellman at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, to work on the mechanisms of extra centrosome clustering in cancer cells during mitosis. Susana established her own research group at the Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), in 2013. She was the first lecturer of QMUL to be awarded the Lister Prize (2016). Her group investigates how tumour progression is affected by the presence of extra centrosomes in a cancer cell, and how these cancer cells employ mechanisms to adapt to supernumerary centrosomes.