Dr Emer Lynch graduated from University College Dublin in 2015. She obtained membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (MRCPI) and Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom (MRCP) in 2018 and is currently undertaking Higher Specialist Training in Medical Oncology. She completed an MSc in Healthcare Management with RCSI in 2022.

Dr Lynch has a strong interest in clinical research, has presented at multiple national meetings, and has authored and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed publications.

In 2024, she was awarded a highly prestigious Breakthrough Cancer Clinical Research Fellowship, to support a two year period of clinical research in Cork University Hospital and Cancer Research @UCC, under the mentorship of Professor Roisin Connolly. As part of this, she is undertaking an MD in Clinical Medicine with a focus on the genomic characterisation of breast cancer in Ireland and the evolving role of liquid biopsy in Metastatic breast cancer.