I completed my BSc in Pharmacology at the University of Southampton prior to moving to Imperial for MRes studies in Neuroscience. I stayed at Imperial College to complete my PhD under the supervision of Prof David Dexter, looking at the neuroprotective potential of histone deacetylase inhibitors in Parkinson's disease, using imaging to quantify disease progression in the rodent brain. I then moved to UCL's Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging to lead a collaborative project with Eli Lilly looking to develop imaging strategies to assess pathology in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. I am currently the recipient of Alzheimer's Research UK and Parkinson's UK reserarch fellowships aiming to understand the involvement of the glymphatic system in neurodegenerative disease.

For my undergraduate degree I went to the University of Portsmouth and obtained First Class Honours in Pharmacology. Here I discovered a passion for neuroscience and research, so I decided to study MRes Translational Research at University College London. My research project was hosted by Ian, and worked to determine if the glymphatic system had a role in the clearance of propagation-prone alpha-synuclein in mice, as a reflection of Parkinson’s disease. I will be returning to Ian’s lab in October 2021 to begin a research assistant role looking Aquaporin-4 (the protein that we believe facilitates glymphatic flow) in post-mortem PD brains and whether this is a viable target for disease treatment. After this position, it is my aspiration to become a PhD candidate and continue with neurodegenerative disease research.