Nancy did her PhD at the National Institute for Medical Research, UK and a post-doc at the Salk Institute for Biomedical Research, US. After 10 years as a Group Leader at the Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK, she moved to the University of Manchester in 2006 to take up a Professorship in Developmental Neuroscience. She is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, an elected member of EMBO (2012), a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2013) and has served in the Senate and Board of Governors of the University of Manchester.