Dr Patricia Kelly (Graduated December 2016), has been accepted as a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School beginning on 1st May 2017 in the laboratory of Professor Brian Bacskai at Massachusetts General Hospital.
http://www.massgeneral.org/neurology/researcher_profiles/bacskai_brian.aspx
Patricia will continue her studies on Alzheimer’s disease by investigating the role of Astrocytes in the APP/PS-1 transgenic model of Alzheimer’s using a range of live imaging and advanced microscopy techniques. Patricia wrote a manuscript from a chapter of her thesis that was published in Microcirculation (2015) and another is currently being reviewed by the Journal “Angiogenesis”. Patricia has been active in the step up programme at UU for the last 4 years which introduces final year high school students from underprivileged backgrounds to the joy of scientific discovery and she is passionate about passing on her voluminous enthusiasm for science to the students who attend. In her social capacity, Patricia was instrumental in winning an award for the town of Park (Northern Ireland), which was designated a “dementia friendly town” in a gala ceremony in Belfast at the end of last year. Patricia also received a personal award for increasing community awareness of this debilitating disease both in Park itself and more widely in the ‘Derry area. I am immensely proud of Patricia’s achievements and am sure that we all wish her continued success in her scientific career in Boston, USA.