Lancaster is a group leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK.
[citation needed] Lancaster conducted her post-doctoral work in the lab of Jürgen Knoblich at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna, Austria.
[2] The lab uses the cerebral organoid system to study how genes impact on brain development in a range of species.
[11] The following year Lancaster gave a TED talk entitled 'Growing mini brains to discover what makes us human'.
[17] Lancaster was also named the 2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK Life Sciences Laureate [18] and was elected as an EMBO member in 2022.