Who is nessa carey

She was a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College School of Medicine in London, where she led a research team investigating a genetic disorder that gets worse and worse as it passes down through the generations in an affected family. For nearly ten years she has worked in the biotech industry, trying to take basic science discoveries and turn them into new treatments for human diseases.

Epigenetics is the biology that explains so many of the puzzling things around us — why identical twins get less identical with age; why childhood trauma can affect you for the next sixty years of your life; why our bodies change as we age; why we develop common diseases like arthritis and how we can start to treat them better — and her book explores all these and much more.

I then realised that I loved academic science and went off to do a PhD. At the University of Edinburgh. In the veterinary faculty. After that, it was the academic route of post-doc, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer. But I had a tendency to wander off on routes that intrigued me - degree in Immunology, PhD in Virology, post-doc in Human Genetics, academic position in Molecular Biology.

Such wandering isn't necessarily the best idea in academia but the breadth of experience is really valued in industry. I spent 13 years in the biotech and pharmaceutical sector, but in decided to change career paths again. And outside of work? I love birdwatching no, I don't have a life-list , cycling, scavenging stuff from skips, and growing vegetables.

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