Bio

2014-2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey -Developed animal models to study the pathology of Parkinson’s Disease and screened and tested potential therapeutic components. Examined the synergistic protective effect of caffeine and eicosanoyl-5-hydroxytryptamide against Parkinson’s Disease in both cell culture and mouse PD models. 2009-2013 PhD studentship, University College Cork, Ireland -Designed and executed research aimed at identifying and characterising TRAF6-mediated ubiquitination of presenilins and γ-secretase substrates, which have important roles in controlling receptor-initiated signalling events and therefore are critically important in the pathogenesis of cancer, inflammatory and Alzheimer’s disease.