Qualifications

MA (Cambridge); DPhil (Oxford) 

Academic background

I studied Natural Sciences, Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, New York, and North Carolina. 

Undergraduate teaching

I teach pre-clinical medicine.

Research interests

My research chiefly concerns the neuroscience underlying Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, drug addiction (particularly addiction to nicotine and cocaine), and other psychiatric illness.

Featured publications

A full list of publications is available on my departmental page. 

Other interests and activities

I enjoy gardening, music and travel.

Featured News

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Gazing at the stars: an interdisciplinary Christ Church collaboration

A recent publication in leading science journal Nature Communications offers novel insights into the function of star-like cells – or ‘astrocytes’ – in the brain, and how they govern the function of brain nerve cells. The article is the product of interdisciplinary collaboration between University of Oxford researchers, including two Christ Church academics, Tutor in Medicine Professor Stephanie Cragg and Tutor in Mathematics Professor Kevin McGerty. 

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