- GrantTreeTechnical WriterBIOTECHFebruary 2023 - Today (1 year and 11 months)London, England, United KingdomI help innovative companies in biotech, life science and biomedicine accelerate their ideas by applying for bids. I aid in technical writing and consultation.
- UCLPostdoctoral Research FellowRESEARCHJanuary 2020 - January 2023 (3 years and 1 month)London, UKWork towards Alzheimer's disease variant diagnosis and treatment.I analyse the stability and confirmation-dependence of proteins with biochemical methods, track protein aggregation in live-cell imaging methods, measure the composition of purified proteins with mass spectrometry and use electron microscopy, in particular cryo-EM, to determine the structure of protein filaments.Project management: research budgets, legal and ethics including material transfer agreements and tissue management, risk assessments and standard operating procedures.Collaborating with researchers at the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute to generate nanobodies against structural variants of amyloid beta fibrils. Developing immunotherapeutics at the bench to bring to the bedside.Collaborating with researchers at the National Institutes of Health, USA to analyse structural signatures of amyloid beta variants using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance.
- UCLDoctoral ResearcherRESEARCHMarch 2016 - January 2020 (3 years and 10 months)London, UKPrion disease treatment and diagnosis.Analysis of neurotoxicity in prion diseases using high-content analysis of immunofluorescence images of fixed neurons. Neuronal and other cell culture, molecular biology methods, fixed and live-cell imaging and analysis, development of in-house assays, in vivo modelling, data and statistical analysis.
- Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular NeuroscienceUCL2019Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Neuroscience
- PG Certificate, Regenerative MedicineThe University of Manchester2015PG Certificate, Regenerative Medicine
- Bachelor of ScienceThe University of Manchester2013Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biology, General
- A-level and GCSEsAltrincham Grammar School for Girls2010A-level and GCSEs