Dervla did her undergraduate thesis in the lab, working with grad student Roy Auty on the basal transcription machinery. After graduation, she got her PhD from UCSF, did a postdoc at Tufts, and is currently a Senior Scientist at Kintai Therapeutics. Dervla's LinkedIn profile.
Noon is from Thailand, and grew up in an academic family. Her undergraduate major is dentistry, and she came to Harvard Dental School for her PhD. Her thesis work was on Bdf1, a yeast bromodomain protein involved in gene expression. After graduation, she did postdoctoral work at MIT and then joined the faculty at Chulalongkorn University back home in Thailand.