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PhD Neuroscientist | In vitro models of neurological disease | Organ on a chip technology | Electrophysiology

Profile Summary

I am a postdoctoral researcher in infection neuroscience, which requires expertise in neuroscience, immunology, and microbiology. I have a number of peer-reviewed publications in high impact journals such as Nature Communications, and I am an active researcher in my field. I have a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Aberdeen where I researched organ-on-a-chip technology, specifically developing a neuromuscular junction on a chip model for the neurodegenerative disease ALS, which was picked up by a major pharmaceutical company for testing candidate compounds. I hold an MBiolSci in Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology. I also have experience in R&D in the pharmaceutical industry, around the optimization of cell-based models for drug screening and efficacy testing for recombinant biologics.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Biomarkers
• ☆ PCR
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Cell-Based Assays
• ☆ Stem Cell Research
• ☆ Neuroscience
• ☆ Neurophysiology
• ☆ Molecular Neuroscience
• ☆ Neurobiology
• ☆ Cell Culture
• ☆ Primary Cells
• ☆ Immunohistochemistry

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Fact Checking, Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Image Processing, Image Analysis

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Liverpool

January 2023 - Present

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Liverpool

January 2023 - Present

Education

PhD in Neuroscience (Institute of Medical Sciences)

University of Aberdeen

- 2023

MBiolSci

University of Sheffield

January 2012 - January 2016

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Claire Hetherington, Cordelia Dunai, Sarah A. Boardman, Jordan J. Clark, Parul Sharma, Krishanthi Subramaniam, Kukatharmini Tharmaratnam, Edward J. Needham, Robyn Williams, Yun Huang, et al. (2024). Pulmonary SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to para-infectious immune activation in the brain . Frontiers in Immunology.

Claire Hetherington, Benedict Michael, Cordelia Dunai, Edward Needham, Kukatharmini Tharmaratnam, Robyn Williams, Yun Huang, Sarah Boardman, Jordan J. Clark, Parul Sharma, et al. (2023). Para-infectious brain injury in COVID-19 persists at follow-up despite attenuated cytokine and autoantibody responses . Nature Communications.