Much of Dr Elaine's career has been devoted to the development of novel approaches to the classification and monitoring of leukemia and lymphoma, with a particular focus on detection of minimal residual disease by flow cytometry. Before moving to Singapore in 2011, she was Laboratory Manager in the Department of Oncology at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Prior to that, she was Chief Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer in the Department of Immunology at the Royal Free Hospital, London.