Professor Clare Isacke studied Biochemistry and graduatedin Developmental Biology with John Heath at the University of Oxford. She then moved to Tony Hunter's laboratory at the Salk Institute in San Diego to work on growth factor receptor signalling as a postdoctoral fellow. On returning to England, she started her own research laboratory first in the Department of Biochemistry and then in the Department of Biology at Imperial College London. She was appointed Professor of Molecular Cell Biology in 2000. In 2001, Professor Isacke moved to The Institute of Cancer Research in London to take up an appointment as Professor of Molecular Cell Biology in the Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre. Currently, she is Academic Dean at the ICR. Professor Isacke aims to identify the processes by which tumour cells recruit non-cancerous cells during metastasis.