[2] Bunch was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield, where she was awarded an Enterprise Fellowship to commercialise imaging using mass spectrometry.
[1] She joined the University of Birmingham, leading a large multi-disciplinary group using MALDI Mass spectrometry.
[4][7] In 2017 Bunch was funded by Cancer Research UK's Grand Challenge to map tumours at a molecular and cellular level.
[8] She came up with the idea when listening to a BBC Radio 4 program about the Cancer Research UK Grand Challenges.
[9] The investment was worth £16 million, and uses mass spectrometry imaging techniques to study breast, bowel and pancreatic tumours in "unprecedented detail.