I was obsessed with biological science at school. I was always first in line to dissect the frog leg or heart at school. I wanted to know how the leg functioned - why does a frog leap. I wanted to know how the heart was innervated - why does it beat? All roads led to neuroscience and I knew that I wanted to pursue a career that would allow me to understand the mechanisms that make us the unique individuals that we are. Nothing is more unique than our experience of pain and the idea that the same stimulus could evoke a different pain sensation in different individuals fascinated me. My Neuropharmacology lecture as an UGT at UCL inspired me to investigate this process when I completed a research project in his laboratory. From there, like the nerve in my dissected frogs legs, I was hooked.