Charlotte Ng obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2012. She began her post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK in 2012 and relocated with the lab to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, US in 2013. She was a research associate at the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland from 2016-2018 before starting her research group at the University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland in 2019. She joined Humanitas University as an Associate Professor in 2023.