Joana Vieira Flores

Joana Flores is currently Strategy manager for Cancer Research UK, the world's largest independent cancer research charity, based in London. She has worked in different roles related to Health across the public, private and third sectors.

Prior to working for Cancer Research UK, she was a strategy consultant at LEK Consulting, advising pharmaceutical and biotech companies. She previously worked as Chief Operating Officer at Healx, a start-up doing drug repurposing for rare diseases, and as an intern at the Mental Health department of the World Health Organization.  She completed her PhD in Stem Cell Biology at Cambridge University in 2015.