Szi Kay Leung

Szi Kay Leung is a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter Medical School, affiliated with the Complex Disease Epigenomics Group led by Professor Jonathan Mill. Her research integrates wet-lab biochemistry and bioinformatics to investigate transcriptomic dysregulation in Alzheimer's disease using long-read sequencing.

Education:

• MBiochem in Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK (2011-2015)
• PhD in Functional Genomics, University of Exeter, UK (2017-2022)

Research Focus: Her work centers on Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis, emphasizing alternative splicing, RNA isoforms, and epigenetic mechanisms. She utilizes advanced genomic technologies including long-read sequencing and transcriptomic pipelines.

Affiliations:

• NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre
• Exeter Brain Research Network

She is available for postgraduate research supervision (PhD/Masters).