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Dr Ami Ketley

Daphne Jackson Fellow at the University of Nottingham, in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science

Name: Dr Ami Ketley
Field: Life Sciences & Biomedicine

Specialisms:

  • Human genetics
  • Molecular biology
  • Genetics of disease and drug development

Research and qualifications:

  • BSc in Human Genetics from the University of Nottingham.
  • PhD in molecular biology from the University of Nottingham.
  • University of Nottingham Hermes Postdoctoral Scholarship to GlaxoSmithKline researching High Content Imaging in myotonic dystrophy (a form of muscular dystrophy).
  • Wellcome Trust Seeding Drug Discovery Grant for a drug development project and a Marigold Foundation Fellowship working on compound screening for myotonic dystrophy.

Returning to her research after a 5-year break, Ami’s Fellowship is entitled: “Application of a bioinformatics pipeline to evaluate the cardiac transcriptomic profile in myotonic dystrophy” (genetics of the heart in myotonic muscular dystrophy patients)

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