Fleur Furguson received her M.Sc in chemistry from Imperial College London, and her Ph.D in chemistry from the University of Cambridge. She performed her postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Nathanael S. Gray at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She is currently an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.