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Senior Group Leader and Assistant Research Director Sonia Gandhi gives this week's lecture. Sonia leads the Neurodegeneration Biology lab at the Crick alongside her work as a Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square.

The Gandhi lab uses patient-derived human stem cells as a model for investigating the causes of Parkinson’s disease (PD), with the ultimate aim of translating our insights into improved diagnostics, biomarkers, and novel targets for therapies.

Biography

Sonia obtained a BA in Neuroscience at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, in 1996, and completed her degree in Medicine at New College, University of Oxford, in 1999.

She trained in postgraduate medicine at the Hammersmith Hospital, Royal Brompton Hospital, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Whittington Hospital. In 2004 Sonia was awarded a Wellcome Clinical Research Training Fellowship to complete a PhD in Neuroscience at UCL Institute of Neurology. In 2007, she trained as a Specialist registrar in Neurology, and took up an NIHR Lectureship in Neurology at Imperial College in 2009. In 2012 she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellowship, and established her laboratory at the UCL Institute of Neurology in October 2013. She was awarded a laboratory secondment to the Francis Crick Institute in 2016.

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