Biography
Roles & Responsibilities: Coordinate communication and knowledge sharing between researchers across the UK DRI centres; managing theme meetings, workshops and events to strengthen relationships between UK DRI researchers and the wider community.
Helen joined UK DRI in September 2022 as Research Themes Project Manager for the Neuroimmune Interactions, Cellular Processes of Ageing and Glia themes. Before this role, she worked in several senior editorial roles at the Lancet journals and Cell Press.
Helen undertook a BSc in Biochemistry and an MSc in Stem Cell Technology both at the University of Nottingham, followed by a PhD in Neuroscience at King’s College London. During her PhD she studied the feasibility of a stem cell treatment for Batten disease, a childhood neurodegenerative disease.