Research Scholarship
Hello! My name is James Sleigh, I am a scientist working on SMA and I am your research correspondent at the Jennifer Trust. I am a postgraduate PhD student at the University of Oxford and I am looking at the cellular and molecular level into what causes the motor nerves to degenerate in SMA.
I did my undergraduate degree in Biology at the University of Bath, and was lucky enough in my third year to work in a lab at Harvard University in Boston, MA, USA, where I first studied the disease. As your research correspondent, I maintain the research section of the trust’s website and provide regular updates and information on new developments in the SMA research field, both in Inspirations and online.
I also conduct Q & A sessions with some of Europe's leading SMA scientists so that we can gain some insight into what they do and why. I hope that you find my articles informative and useful, and that I provide an up-to-date and helpful window into current work on SMA.
