Aideen Mcinerney-leo

Biography

Dr Aideen McInerney-Leo studied Human Genetics as an undergraduate at the University College London.  Upon completing her degree she accepted a position as a Research Assistant in the Clinical Genetics department of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.  After a year she applied for a Masters program in Genetic Counselling at the University of Manchester.  Following graduation Aideen moved to Bethesda, Maryland to a position at the National Institutes of Health where she remained for the following eight years.  During this time she had many roles including assistant director of the genetic counselling training program at Johns Hopkins University, clinical genetic counsellor and researcher counsellor.  Research studies included Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Turner syndrome, Premature Ovarian Failure and neurodegenerative diseases in general with a special interest in Parkinson Disease.  Aideen moved to Australia in 2006 where she accepted a position as a prenatal genetic counsellor at so+gi in Southbank.  In 2011 she returned to research at the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute where she got the opportunity to identify new genes for rare genetic disorders.  After a series of fortunate, exciting, discoveries Aideen elected to do a PhD on next generation sequencing and illness perceptions in a family with Marfan syndrome. Aideen is now a post-doctoral researcher at QUT where is works as part of a team focused on integrating genomics into routine cancer care.  

Research Interest

Genetic Counselling Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data