Victoria Wang – I studied biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and then completed a PhD in cancer biology at the Francis Crick Institute in London. From 2020 to 2022 I was doing postdoctoral research on pancreatic and liver cancers in Glasgow, Scotland. Following this I decided to zoom out from hands-on cancer research and completed an MA in philosophy of science at the University of Toronto in 2022/23.
You can find me on Twitter @vwang93 and on Bluesky @vmywang.bsky.social
To view my academic record, please see my ORCID page.
The current header image is an Alcian blue/Periodic acid-Schiff (AB/PAS) stain of a mouse pancreatic xenograft tumour taken during my PhD. The blue and purple areas represent cells that are making and/or secreting mucins, the protein components of mucus.
All views expressed on this blog are my own.
Gotta Love Cells 
A colleague here at the Crick put me on to the blog. Hats off for walking away from work that just didn’t work for you. Myself, I have wandered among enough different studies that I’m satisfied if I’ve got good colleagues and good problems.
As regards the sculpture outside the Crick, I’ve taken almost the same photograph of it. What strikes me as the biggest paradigm shift in that picture is between the view embodied in sculpture and the view embodied in the architecture behind it. I’ve never quite figured out what’s Kings Cross and what’s St Pancras. But the people who built that were sure that they were building Civillization and that Civillization was permanent.
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