Dorcas Cheung

Dorcas graduated from University of Manchester with a BSc in Biomedical Science where she investigated elevated expression of Two Pore Potassium Channel THIK-1 inflammatory response in Alzheimer’s Disease. Her continual interest in neurodegenerative diseases led to her MSc Dementia Neuroscience at University College London, working on DNA methylation effects on repeat protein tracts in frontotemporal dementia. She then spent 3 years as a research assistant at the UK Dementia Research Institute at Imperial College as part of the Multiomics Brain Atlas project. Alongside she is also part of several functional genomic studies on Alzheimer’s disease. With her continual interest in multiomic techniques, she is excited to be part of the Franklin’s interdisciplinary approach, particularly correlated imaging and biological mass spectrometry to investigate pathological mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases.