Dr Cassandra Modahl is a group leader in the Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Her research involves characterizing snakebite pathology, developing new therapeutics for snakebite envenoming, and engineering toxins for vector control. She has been studying toxinology internationally (USA, Singapore and now in the U.K.) for over 15 years and is well known in the field for her expertise in omic (genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic) approaches to profiling venoms and functional characterisation of toxin activities. She has over 25 multidisciplinary (across toxinology, vector biology, and virology) peer-reviewed publications and six book chapters.