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Appointment
- Senior Research Fellow in Life Course and Genetic Epidemiology
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Hlth & Ageing
- Population Science & Experimental Medicine
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Biography
- BSc (First Class Hons) in Biology, University of Leeds
- PhD in epidemiology, University of Bristol
- Policy officer at the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK
- Postdoctoral research positions in epidemiology at Imperial College London and the Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Research Summary
I conduct molecular and genetic epidemiology to investigate the causes of neurovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. These manifest as major health problems in older individuals, including cerebral small vessel disease (a precursor to stroke and vascular dementia), Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. My research has also focused on the discovery and repurposing of therapeutics that could prevent or treat these conditions.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I have served as a lead research fellow for one of the UK's national core studies investigating the causes and consequences of the pandemic, with a particular focus on the burden of long COVID in the population (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/covid-19-longitudinal-health-wellbeing/).
I currently hold funding as a principal investigator to examine the roles of common infections in cerebrovascular and Alzheimer's diseases.
