Carol Tang graduated from The Scripps Research Institute, USA in 1998 on a Glaxo Wellcome-EDB funded scholarship. She subsequently undertook postdoctoral training at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore (cell cycle) and the Howard Florey Institute, Melbourne in developmental neurobiology. Together with her Co-Principal Investigator and neurosurgeon colleague, A/Prof Ang Beng Ti, they established the Neuro-Oncology Research Laboratory in 2006.