Dr Charlotte Spicer

Dr Charlotte Spicer was a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at University College London's Queen Square Institute of Neurology, investigating a gene therapy approach for the rare neurodegenerative disorder spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (also known as Kennedy's disease). Previously, she studied Neuroscience at the University of Leeds, with a year’s industrial experience with the London Pain Consortium at Imperial College London. After this she undertook a PhD in which she investigated the effects of upregulating the heat shock response in models of a rare muscle-wasting disease called inclusion body myositis. This was conducted under the the supervision of Professor Linda Greensmith and funded by the Medical Research Council's Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases at UCL.was