I am an NIHR BRC-funded PhD student at Newcastle University studying shared mechanisms of immune-mediated disease
Research interests:
Immune Health & Disease
Bioinformatics
Precision Medicine
My PhD focuses on harnessing single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data from human tissue to elucidate shared mechanisms of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs).
I aim to configure large scRNA-seq datasets for integrative analysis and develop immune cell-level multi-tissue atlases that can be interrogated to identify overlapping cellular and/or molecular pathways between tissues.
This research is funded by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Newcastle.
I was born in London and I am of Ghanaian 🇬🇠and Jamaican 🇯🇲 descent. I received a President's Undergraduate Scholarship to study Biochemistry at Imperial College London.
I then went on to complete an MRes in Ageing & Health at Newcastle University, where my research focused on sex differences in immune system ageing.
As a first-generation student, I am passionate about Black representation in academia. During my undergraduate studies, I mentored Year 12 students as part of an e-mentoring programme for black-heritage students (Insight2Uni). This programme helped students to make informed university choices and submit high-quality UCAS applications.
