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Melissa graduated with a first class honours in her Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree from Medway School of Pharmacy, Universities of Kent and Greenwich. In her final year of studies she received the University of Kent Faculty of Sciences Rotary award for distinguished performance in exams.
As an undergraduate she undertook a 3-month research project under the supervision of Prof S. Skaper, at the University of Padua, as part of the ERASMUS scheme. The project involved investigating excitatory amino acid receptor-mediated toxicity to oligodendrocytes and the evaluation of flavonoids as cytoprotective agents.
Following graduation she completed a year of pharmacy pre-registration training in a community setting before qualifying as a pharmacist in 2014.
In 2014, Melissa began her PhD programme at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Therapeutics and Nanomedicines at UCL. The first year involved the completion of two training projects based at the Department of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, and in Drug Product Design, Pfizer, Sandwich, U.K.
Research Summary
Melissa's PhD research is a multi-disciplinary project to improve regeneration and functional recovery following peripheral nerve damage. It involves close collaboration between the Department of… read more
Current Research
Melissa's PhD research is a multi-disciplinary project to improve regeneration and functional recovery following peripheral nerve damage. It involves close collaboration between the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry, UCL School of Pharmacy and the Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Department, UCL Eastman Dental Institute.