Venessa worked with the Personalised Cancer Therapeutics group during her PhD, which looked at using genomics to inform therapeutic discoveries in pancreas cancer. Her work included a meta-analysis, in vitro and in vivo analysis of rationally selected drug targets, and analysis of metastasis formation in real time. She is now a post-doctoral researcher in the Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics where her work focuses on how cellular genomics can guide management decisions in cancers of the lung and oropharynx.