Name:
Dr Sarah Aldous
Job Title:
Post-doctoral research associate
Place of work / study:
Institute of Neurology, UCL
Area of research:
Huntingdon’s Disease.
How is your work funded:
UK Dementia Research Institute
Tell us a little about yourself:
I did my undergrad in Cell Biology at Edinburgh University and then came back to London for a 4 year PhD at the LMCB at UCL. The programme had a rotation year so I got to work in three different labs before committing for my PhD, it also gave me the opportunity to go to UCSF for a couple of months. My PhD was studying a chromatin remodelling complex during neuronal development and I finished this Christmas 2018. I started a new post-doc at the ION in January, and am enjoying getting to grips with a new topic and lab.
Tell us a fun fact about yourself:
Went to Madagascar for Biodiversity research while at Uni and was able to spend the summer with Lemurs!
Why did you choose to work in dementia?
I really enjoyed the molecular pathway aspects of my PhD, but wanted to go into more clinical and disease based area. I wanted to not only study how the brain works, but understand how it goes wrong in neurodegeneration, so could contribute to trying to help patients.