Iorns has been profiled in many leading publications including Nature, FastCompany, the San Francisco Business Times and Xconomy.
She was supervised by Alan Ashworth and her thesis was titled High throughput functional analysis for the identification of breast cancer targets.
[7] In August 2012 she helped launch the Reproducibility Initiative, a program developed to assist researchers in validating their findings by repeating their experiments through independent laboratories.
[17] In December 2012, Iorns was recognized by the scientific journal Nature as one of the "Ten People that Mattered in 2012" for her role in launching the Reproducibility Initiative.
[1] In May 2013, Iorns was named, along with co-founders Ryan Abbott and Dan Knox, as "Tech’s Most Inspiring New Founder" by SV Angel’s David Lee.