Dr Rachel Tan, NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Fellow, The University of Sydney.
Rachel is a Senior Research Fellow at The University of Sydney with skillsets in neuropathology, neuroimaging, genetics and molecular biology. Her research focuses on identifying and understanding the various pathomechanisms involved in motor neuron disease and frontotemporal dementia; the clinical features associated with these distinct pathways; and clinical markers that can improve the early and accurate identification of patients with these.
Prior to commencing her research in neurodegenerative disorders, Rachel trained at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD developed a novel hair-root assay for the detection of mutations in patients with inherited nephritis; and studied the use of chemical chaperone drugs to prevent protein misfolding in cell lines developed from these patients with identified mutations.