Dr Rachel Woodhouse is a postdoctoral fellow in the Cancer Immunology and Epigenetics Laboratory at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU. She researches how changes in gene expression patterns within cancer cells drive tumour development and progression, with the goal of developing new therapies for cancers that resist traditional treatments.

Rachel completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney and was awarded Honours Class I and the University Medal. Rachel then undertook her PhD at the University of Sydney where she characterised mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance under the supervision of A/Prof Alyson Ashe. She moved to the ANU in 2022 to begin her postdoctoral fellowship with A/Prof Marian Burr, to apply her expertise in characterising fundamental epigenetic mechanisms to translational cancer research. Her research utilises CRISPR-Cas9 screening, epigenomics, and molecular biology approaches.