Alumnus of the Year, Rising Star (October 2021)
Dr Jennie Chandler obtained first-class honours from the University of Exeter in 2013 and moved to Australia to do her PhD at USC, publishing seven first-author papers. In 2017, Jennie secured a postdoctoral position at the prestigious University College of London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UK), where her research focuses on novel treatments for childhood kidney failure. (Full details via link above).
Within two years Jennie discovered a new cause of kidney disease in children. Part of an international collaborative project, her work lead to the identification and characterisation of a new mechanism acting in kidney damage, associated with defective RNA processing (known as pseudouridylation). Her work on this project led to a co-first authorship publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS; impact factor 11.21) and funding from Genome Editing Mice for Medicine (MRC Harwell Institute, 2018). Together this work will advance understanding of how RNA processing is implicated in human disease and how to best treat these patients. She has obtained her own funding to improve how therapeutics are delivered to the kidney and leads patient engagement and outreach for the Kidney Group at the Institute of Child Health. Jennie is a mentor with The Girls Network and sits on the NIHR TRC Junior Committee.
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