PhD student in Developmental Neurosciences
Barbora Cerna is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. She is a PhD student in Developmental Neurosciences at the University College London (UCL) Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. She previously obtained an MRes in Pharmacology from the Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology Research Department at UCL, and BSc in Biomedical Science with a Year in Industry from the University of Sheffield. Her current work focuses on developing gene therapies for the treatment of childhood epilepsies and using iPSCs-derived neurons and organoids for disease modelling.
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