Francesca McEwan

Francesca McEwan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate under the supervision of Dr. Serene Siying Lin. Her research is funded by the MRC and is titled “EYEGENOM: Genomic and Molecular Research in Inherited Eye Disease”. Within this project, she is investigating how rare genetic variants contribute to inherited eye disease, and the molecular pathways they disrupt. This builds on her PhD in Neuroscience, where she examined the molecular pathways disrupted in the maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia. She further strengthened her molecular biology expertise working in industry as a scientist, where she developed diagnostic assays for inherited disease before returning to academia.