Fatma Scerif is a Daphne Jackson Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, where she is working in the Centre for Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology at the William Harvey Research Institute.

Fatma is a molecular biologist who obtained her BSc and MSc at Queen Mary University of London, followed by a PhD at the Institute of Child Health, University College London.

After her PhD, Fatma held a full time two year position as a Post Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) at Newcastle University investigating Non-invasive identification of medulloblastoma genetic subtypes using metabolite profiles and imaging features, during which time she contributed to a published manuscript and several conference publications.

Returning to her research career after a six year break Fatma’s Fellowship is sponsored by the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research and the Medical Research Council and her project is entitled: Treating obesity-induced osteoarthritis with Agrin.