It was great to celebrate with Meg and others who graduated with PhDs from the School of Engineering and Materials Science.

Meg's PhD involved conducting a confocal microscopy screen of 1700 drugs to identify compounds that regulate the length of the specialist cellular organelles known as primary cilia. The information is helping to identify potential drugs that could be repurposed to treat diseases associated with cilia dysfunction termed ciliopathies. The data is also helping us to examine fundamental cilia structure -function relationships.

After her PhD, Meg continued working with Profs Knight and Bishop to examine the effect of cilia modulation on the rare genetic disease, Jeune Syndrome.
Meg is now working for a bioscience start up company.