Professor D’Arcy is a tenured Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Dallas. She received her Ph.D. in Structural Biology at the University of Cambridge under the tutelage of Sir Professor Tom Blundell. She trained in the HHMI laboratory of Professor Karolin Luger at Colorado State University. Her research is currently funded by grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH, and the Welch Foundation.