Anne Corcoran received her Ph.D. from University College Dublin, Ireland, and her postdoctoral training from the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, London (UK) and the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK). She joined the Babraham Institute, Cambridge (UK) as a tenure-track group leader in the Nuclear Dynamics research programme in 1999, was awarded tenure in 2005, and was a Senior Group Leader in the Immunology research programme from 2017 to 2024. Anne currently holds Associate Group Leader status at the Institute and is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Pharmacology,  University of Cambridge.

Her research focuses on the epigenetic mechanisms underpinning immunoglobulin recombination and signalling in B cell development and ageing. Most recently, her group have developed a next generation sequencing method to interrogate intra and interchromosomal interactions in B cells.