Meet the team

Diu obtained her MSc in Biomolecular Sciences from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT. She was then awarded a Marie Curie fellowship to complete her PhD (DPhil) from the University of Oxford, UK. Diu then moved to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA for her postdoc, investigating the role of post-transcriptional regulation in normal and malignant cancer stem cells.

She pioneered the use of RNA-editing based approaches to identify RNA targets of RNA-Binding Proteins (RBPs) in mammalian stem cells, which has provided new insights into RBP function in rare cells and opened a new avenue for stem cell research. She also discovered the oncogenic role of a number of RBPs in blood cancer. Diu is a recipient of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Scholar Fellowship that supports her transition to independence. In 2022, Diu started her own group at the Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, with the support of a Career Development Fellowship from Cancer Research UK.

For more information about Diu,please find her on Twitter, Orcid, Research Gate, Google Scholar.