London, England, United Kingdom
I am a graduate medical student in the MBBS Graduate Entry programme at King's College London working in various hospitals across London.
I completed my Integrated Master's degree at Dr Karen Duff's lab at the Dementia Research Institute. I researched the application of novel mouse models by quantifying the structure of toxic proteins in the brain and comparing them to toxic human proteins through various biophysical and biochemical techniques. This had therapeutic and clinical implications for drug discovery and biomarkers, but most importantly the classification of neurodegenerative diseases.
I led the UCL Women's Hockey Club for the 2023-2024 academic year coordinating the club and its 16 other committee members. I organised the location of training, matches and coaches, work closely with the Treasurer for budgeting, increase membership, help create all of our social/sporting/volunteering events and improve our profile as a club. This is alongside my full-time degree and requires dedication, flexibility and communication skills. We were nominated for Team UCL's Club of the Year and UCL's Volunteering Club of the Year following the committee's efforts.
I worked in Ben Ryskeldi-Falcon's group researching the key proteins involved in Frontotemporal Dementia through a variety of biochemical and biophysical experiments. Notably, my work focuses on using Super Plasmon Resonance interactions to determine chaperons or other binding factors to TDP-43. I have additionally conducted individual experiments on amyloid dissociation solutions, as well as investigating extra-cellular vesicles and their role in Alzheimer's Disease given how they localise to different isoforms of Tau protein.
I research theories of ageing, for example, antagonistic pleiotry through experiments on adaptive death in Caenorhabditis elegans in Professor Gems' lab. I was funded by the Genetics Society and so I attended and presented my work at their annual Summer conference networking with fellow students and other academics. I also took on a Research Assistant role alongside investigating tumour growth, with fluorescent imaging techniques.