Alex Gerlach

Thouron Scholar at Oxford

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Business Development Intern at Neurvati Neurosciences
    May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 4 mos

    Neurvati is a Blackstone Life Sciences portfolio company established to advance development of high-potential technologies to address a broad range of unmet needs in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

  • Postgraduate Researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Aug 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Grinspan Lab: Under rat cuprizone model of demyelination, working to determine the role of copper ions in mature oligodendrocyte function, focusing on the lysosomal cation TRPML1 channel. Research awarded 2025 CHOP Scientific Symposium Prize.

  • Teaching Assistant – Undergraduate Neuroscience Program at University of Pennsylvania
    Aug 2024 - Dec 2024 · 5 mos

    NRSC 2110/BIOL 2110 — Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology (Fall 2024)

  • Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center - Clinical Research Intern at NYU Langone Health
    May 2024 - Sep 2024 · 5 mos

    Performed data analytics for DMT discontinuation studies tracking relapse rate and MRI progressions. Shadowed weekly in the center's MS clinic.

  • Undergraduate Researcher at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
    Dec 2022 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Shindler/Ross Lab: Studied mitochondrial turnover and SIRT1 vector gene-therapy intervention for retinal neurodegeneration in a traumatic optic neuropathy mouse model.