Anne Corcoran received her Ph.D. from University College Dublin, Ireland, and her postdoctoral training from the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, London (UK) and the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK). She joined the Babraham Institute, Cambridge (UK) as a tenure-track group leader, and is currently a senior Group Leader in the Immunology research programme.

Her research focuses on the epigenetic and nuclear organisational mechanisms underpinning immunoglobulin recombination and B cell development. Most recently, her group have developed a next generation sequencing method to interrogate antibody repertoires at the DNA level.