Hello, and thank you for stopping by. I’m Tammy, a researcher based in the UK, working somewhere in between computational protein design, synthetic biology, and drug delivery. My background is in biology, with a foundation in cancer immunology, and a lot of what I do now begins at a laptop: designing proteins, thinking about lipid nanoparticle formulations, and writing small tools to make the fiddly parts of research a little kinder.

What keeps pulling me back towards the bench is the moment a design has to survive contact with something living. Outside of my own research I have spent time at Lifefabs, a community biology lab in London, and I came into this course by way of HTGAA (Spring 2026), which I followed as a global listener. It was the first time I watched a whole room treat “could we actually make that?" as a reasonable question, and I have been chasing that feeling ever since.

I am taking HTBAA because designing a molecule is only half of the story. The other half — how you actually produce it, reliably, at a scale past a single tube — is the part I most want to get better at.

I am always glad to hear from people working on similar things — do say hello.

Everything I make for How To Biomanufacture (Almost) Anything lives in the navigation bar to the left — weekly assignments, lab notes, and the longer project work as it takes shape.

I try to write these up honestly, including the things that did not work the first time, in the hope that they are useful to whoever comes next.