Karen Mclean
Neuroscience
Dundee University
Belgium
Biography
Fiona graduated from the University of Dundee in 2012 with a Joint Honours in Biochemistry and Pharmacology. She went on to complete an EASTBIO BBSRC funded PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen under the supervision of Professor Lynda Williams, Dr Fiona Campbell and Dr Rosamund Langston (University of Dundee). During her PhD she investigated the impact of a high-fat diet on memory. Following her PhD, Fiona is now a postdoctoral research scientist on a collaborative Wellcome Trust drug discovery project with the University of Sussex. The project is supervised by Professor Jeremy Lambert and Dr Rosamund Langston and is investigating novel compounds to treat Huntington’s disease.
Research Interest
Fiona is currently a postdoctoral researcher on a Wellcome Trust funded drug discovery project in collaboration with the University of Sussex which aims to develop treatments for Huntington’s disease. Huntington’s disease is an inherited, neurodegenerative disease which usually presents itself with symptoms of hyperkinesia. However, the earliest signs of the disease are personality changes and memory loss. Fiona is a behavioural neuropharmacologist working on the development of cognitive enhancing drugs which target subtypes of GABA receptors in
