Fleur Ferguson received her M.Sc degree in chemistry from Imperial College London, and her Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge funded by a BBSRC studentship, advised by Prof. Chris Abell and Prof. Alessio Ciulli. She then joined Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, where she performed her postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Nathanael Gray. Dr. Ferguson is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, at the University of California, San Diego. Her academic research group focuses on the development and application of proximity-pharmacology technologies to disease areas where traditional targeted therapies have failed, such as neuro-oncology and degenerative disease. Research in the Ferguson lab has been recognized by numerous prestigious awards including the NIH Directors’ New Innovator Award, the NSF CAREER, the Keck Foundation Research Award, and early career awards from the Alzheimer’s Association, the PhRMA Foundation, and the Hilblom Foundation.