I am in my final year of PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Michael Samuel, at the Tumour Microenvironment Laboratory, Centre for Cancer Biology in Adelaide, Australia. The focus of my research is to understand mechanisms by which mammary cancer cells modulate the immune microenvironment. My research interests are in the physical and chemical properties of extracellular matrix produced by cancer cell-educated fibroblasts and its capacity to cooperate with other cells within the microenvironment to induce a phenotype shift in macrophages that promotes tumour progression.