Professor Bennett was Director of the MCS Institute from 2016-2022 and has been Professor of Cell Biology since 1999.  She was Head of the Cell Biology and Genetics Research Centre from 2014-2016.  She entered St George’s in 1983, originally as a full-time researcher and group leader funded by the Cancer Research Campaign, joining the academic staff in 1987.

Before that she held an Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) postdoctoral fellowship with JA Smith at the London ICRF Laboratories, and a Damon Runyon Fellowship with Professor R Dulbecco at the Salk Institute, California.

She graduated with an MA (Natural Sciences) from King’s College, Cambridge, and a PhD (1975) from the London ICRF Laboratories/King’s College London.