I am a first-year PhD Student on the Wellcome Trust Funded EDESIA: Plants, Food and Health PhD programme. I will be carrying out three 10-week rotation projects across the University of East Anglia and the Norwich Research Park focusing on plants, food and health, before deciding on my final PhD project.

I completed my undergraduate studies in Medical Sciences at the University of Leeds, and spent my final year in Spain studying biomedicine at the University of Valencia. After the completion of my BSc, I took a role as a Research Technician at the Alzheimer’s Research UK Drug Discovery Institute (ARUK DDI) at UCL. The ARUK DDI is a multidisciplinary academic group (including chemists, pharmacologists and neuroscientists) that focuses on establishing glia as therapeutic targets for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Within the screening and pharmacology team, my role consisted of developing, optimising and running robust cell-based assays for high-throughput screening.