Auriane Drack is a Doctoral Student at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute since February 2023, previously completing a Master of Science by Research at the same institution from September 2021 to September 2022. Auriane has gained extensive research experience, including a Research and Development Internship at L’OCCITANE Group, focusing on cell-cell communication and miRNA in inflammation-induced skin pigmentation, and a Research Internship at Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, which involved studying cardiac cell populations using computational biology. Additional internships include work at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre on genomic and proteomic approaches to Squamous Cell Carcinoma, and a Research Assistant Intern role at CNRS, investigating gabaergic interneurons migration. Auriane holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Biology from the University of Melbourne, a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology from La Trobe University, and a DUT in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from IUT MONTPELLIER-SETE, along with management and marketing studies at ENSAIA and IAE Nancy School of Management.