Zhongbo Chen

Publications

Latest publications of Zhongbo Chen available on ResearchGate.

Research Interests

Genetics; Neurodegenerative diseases; Clinical Neurology; Bioinformatics.

Biography

I am a research fellow on the Crick clinical postdoctoral programme. My research focuses on using transcriptomics to improve understanding of neurogenetic and neurodegenerative diseases. Currently, I am based in the labs of Professor Mina Ryten and Professor Sonia Gandhi, using longitudinal RNA-sequencing data to understand progression and post-transcriptional mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases, namely in Parkinson's disease and hereditary ataxia. I am also a neurology registrar at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. I completed my PhD on the Leonard Wolfson Programme for Neurodegeneration at UCL. My project used bioinformatic and machine learning techniques to study the genetics of neurodegenerative diseases through functional genomic annotation and RNA-sequencing. My research interests started during my intercalated undergraduate degree in Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, where I studied the electrophysiology of skeletal muscle using microelectrodes. I then completed clinical training at the University of Oxford. Following this, I was an academic medicine foundation doctor at Imperial College London. Before embarking on the PhD, I was a specialist registrar and NIHR Neurology academic clinical fellow at King's College London.

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