Dr. Daniel received her primary and secondary education in Barbados at St. Paul's Primary School and Queen's College respectively. She then obtained a B.Sc. in Life Sciences from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. Upon completion of her Ph.D., Dr. Daniel spent six years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Daniel’s research is focused on understanding the fundamentals of cell proliferation and cell adhesion, and elucidating how malfunction of these processes contributes to cancer. Dr. Daniel’s work in the cancer research field led to her discovery and naming of a new gene “Kaiso”, coined from the popular Caribbean music “calypso”.