Research Fellow
University of Glasgow
Dr Rona J Strawbridge (PhD, LKAS Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow UK).
I completed my BSc in Biochemistry with Medical Biochemistry at Cardiff University (UK) in 2003 and moved to Karolinksa Institute (Sweden) to undertake a PhD. I defended my PhD thesis entitled "Genetic Studies of Prostate Cancer and Type 2 Diabetes: MUC1 and GHR" in 2008. I stayed at Karolinska Institute as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (2009-2011), conducting genome-wide genetic studies of glucometabolic and cardiovascular traits and participating in many projects run through international genetics consortia, including MAGIC, GIANT and DIAGRAM. Continuing at Karolinska Institute, I was appointed Research Associate Professor (2012-2016), where I focused on using genetics to explore causality of metabolic components on cardiovascular disease, and was awarded Associate Professorship (Docent) in Molecular Medicine. I have an ongoing affiliation with the Cardiovascular Medicine Division at Karolinska Institute. In 2017 I moved to the University of Glasgow (UK) to join Professor Daniel Smith's team, to study the genetics of mental illness. I was awarded a UKRI innovation Fellowship by Health Data Science UK (2018-2021) and an LKAS Fellowship by the University of Glasgow (2021-ongoing) to use genetics to try to understand why individuals with serious mental illness have an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases.
Monday, July 11, 2022
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM