Cristina Pina is a Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund Intermediate Fellow, a Leuka John Goldman Fellow, and a Principal Investigator at the Department of Haematology of the University of Cambridge. Medically trained, she studied transcriptional regulation of haematopoietic lineage commitment with Tariq Enver at the University of Oxford, and at University College London. Her research focuses on the role and regulation of transcriptional noise in malignant fate decisions.